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by pjmlp 240 days ago
I consider one where human lifes depend on it, for good or worse depending on the side, real time enough.
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Human lives often depend on processes that can afford to be quite slow. You can have a real time system requiring only sub-hour latency; the "realness" of a real-time deadline is quite distinct from the duration of that deadline.