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by stcredzero 5181 days ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
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Sure, anything using the Internet as a conduit, and having to scale to an unpredictable number of users, is incapable of a realtime-guarantee in the technical sense but in terms of user perception it will be real-time in normal conditions. Realtime-y. ;)