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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
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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?
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