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SubjectRe: An important fact about real time computing
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:36:00AM -0600, Jesse C Cronce wrote:
> task (as per your example) that's one thing, but I thought that RT
> scheduling
> is about deadlines and whether or not they can be met, which has nothing
> to
> do with fast computing.

That's true, but it's also true that the shorter the latencies the
greater the range of applications. So, HP-UX "RT" offers determinism
up to some millisecond point and RTLinux offers determinism at the
15 microsecond level -- one can be used for robotics and one cannot.


victor


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