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Realtime in tech has a specific definition. The Wikipedia article covers it in more detail, but think about things like airplane wing control or space rocket computers needing to do things exactly when asked, or else people die.


Even that stuff has a delay.


FYI, my above referenced RTOS was for a space-based application.




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