On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:11 AM, hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > There is a vast range of applications that cannot
> > be managed in real time using existing single-core technology.
>
> I'm sorry to interrupt your discussion, but what is real time?
>
>
Real time just means "fast enough to work properly".  You can throw all
kinds of other crap on top of that and say things about scheduling
requirements and timeslices within which a process must complete, and duty
cycles, but those are just things to look at to figure out if your system is
"fast enough to work properly"

Dave