[comp.realtime] Deadlines and RT OSs

ken@minster.york.ac.uk (08/27/90)

We all talk about deadlines in real-time, but a deadline was originally
a `line around a military prison beyond which a prisoner might be
shot'. Perhaps military real-time operating systems ought to support
this as well?

Ken

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