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by irahul 4839 days ago
> I think that there is some abuse of the term real-time these days:

From your link:

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Soft

The usefulness of a result degrades after its deadline, thereby degrading the system's quality of service.

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A lot of web applications are soft realtime. Chat, Stock updates, news updates...hell twitter and fb updates are soft realtime