??? 12/08/05 10:27 Read: times |
#104868 - A minority of one Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Erik Malund said:
I have no objection to you having your own personal definition of 'real time', but if you persist in presenting that definition on a public forum as though it were correct
I do so, because it is correct albeit not when misused to describe an OS erik I'm afraid that your definition of 'real time' is not correct irrespective of its application. As explained repeatedly to you in this thread 'real time' does not mean 'now' or 'immediately', it means 'within the required time'. What that required time actually is is determined by the application. If the software used in that application includes an operating system then there must be some means of determining whether that operating system will allow the resulting system to operate within the required time. In order to establish this, the OS must have be deterministic - ie, it must have documented worst case response times for certain operations. If it conforms to this requirement it is known as an RTOS - a real time operating system. |