Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!umich!mibte!gamma!ulysses!thumper!faline!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: RISC != real-time control Message-ID: <1947@sugar.UUCP> Date: 7 May 88 17:36:48 GMT References: <1521@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1534@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 16 Keywords: RISC, real-time In article <1534@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, schmitz@FAS.RI.CMU.EDU.UUCP writes: > In article <1521@pt.cs.cmu.edu> koopman@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Philip Koopman) talks about hard realtime when he writes: > >Real-time control programs often have a situation where only > >X microseconds are available to perform a task. > This may be straying somewhat from the original point, but what sort of > applications really have such exact timing deadlines? How about jet engine control systems in fighters? Or the software that lands the space shuttle? -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions, these are *values*.