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- From: sigmadelta@crystal.dircon.co.uk (Steve Dyson)
- Date: 09 Feb 96 23:29:41
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C++ In Realtime Applications
- Message-ID: <673_9602100620@crystal.dircon.co.uk>
- X-FTN-To: ghassempoory@cf.ac.uk
- Organization: The Crystal Tower
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- gh> From: ghassempoory@cf.ac.uk (M. Ghassempoory)
- gh> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 09:22:42 GMT
-
- gh> In article <00001a81+00009ca5@msn.com>, Tendrils@msn.com says...
- >
- >what is your definition of real-time ???
-
-
- gh> Yes! I have often wondered : What is NOT real-time?
-
- I draw your attention to the foreward by DeMarco in "Strategies for Real Time
- System Specification" Hatley & Pirbhai, Dorset House ISBN 0-932633-11-0
- ISBN 0-932633-04-8 (pbk.) which, at the risk of copyright violation...
-
- <quote>
- "Most systems people use the term real-time rather loosely," the young
- manager said. We were seated over dinner with three members of her staff
- and some other managers who took part in the day's seminar. "They say
- they've got a real time constraint when they'rs worried about impatient
- insurance brokers or bankers sitting in front of their terminals. A
- real-time system, in their minds, is just one that needs to be 'quick as
- a bunny.' If they fail to meet that constraint, their users might be
- inconvenienced or even annoyed. When we use the term, it means something
- rather different."
- Her co-workers began to smile, knowing what was coming. "We build
- systems that reside in a small telemetry computer, equiped with all
- kinds of sensors to measure electromagnetic fields and changes in
- temperature, sounds and physical disturbance. We analyse these signals
- and transmit results back to a remote computer over a wide-band channel.
- Our computer is at one end of a one-meter long bar and at the other end
- is a nuclear device. We drop them both down a big hole in the ground and
- when the device detonates, our computer collects the data on the leading
- edge of the blast. The first two and a quarter milliseconds after
- detonation are the most interesting. Of course, long before millisecond
- three, things have gone down hill badly for out little computer. We
- think of that as a real-time constraint."
- <unquote>
-
- Regards,
- Steve.
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