God <root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> (11/18/84)
...and besides, if you don't consider handling disks and high performance network devices a real-time problem then you are kidding yourself. Its really all quite similar. -Barry Shein (flame off) P.S. To give credit where due the work was done when I was at Harvard who,with U. Mich. generously sponsored me.
geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (11/22/84)
In article <5876@brl-tgr.ARPA> Barry Shein writes: > ...and besides, if you don't consider handling disks > and high performance network devices a real-time > problem then you are kidding yourself. Its really > all quite similar. My definition of a real time constraint is one that will have catastrophic consequences for the system if it is violated. What are the catastrophic consequences of delaying a disk interrupt, or completely missing a newtork interrupt? Compare this to the consequences of a missed cutoff of the space shuttle main engine. Many people seem to think that 'real-time' is the same as 'high-performance'. Although the two often go hand in hand, they are really quite different. -- Geoff Kuenning First Systems Corporation ...!ihnp4!trwrb!desint!geoff