| ??? 11/29/05 12:47 Read: times |
#104344 - I see that. Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Just as you are hung up on this idea that real time implies "deterministic". It does. Here's the IEEE definition of real time: "A real-time system is a system whose correctness includes its response time as well as its functional correctness." A system must be deterministic in order to guarantee a response time. Note that the 'response time' in the definition above does not impose any restrictions on the scale of that time period. It can be seconds, days, weeks. But if you send someone who never shopped for vegetables (and had no idea of english words) to get a tomato, that person would come home with a watermelon. Is that Erik's first law of shopping? and you will see that many ask about/use a URTOS due to ignorance of the true meaning of the "real" part of the monniker. This is the crux of the issue. At the expense of sounding like a stuck record, you are the one who doesn't understand the meaning of the 'real' part. If you did, you wouldn't need to keep making reference to 'URTOS', you'd be able to do what the rest of us do and accept that there are things called 'RTOS' which conform to the definition of, well, 'RTOS'. Again, I accept that your intrepetation of the word "real" is one possible, do have the coutesy to accept that my intrepetation of the word "real" is possible as well. The thing being discussed is 'real time', not 'real'. But please, go ahead and interpret anything you like any way you like. |
