From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 4 May 2025 20:53:42 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > You should check out Martin's "Design of Real-Time Computer Systems"   
   > which was written in the early days of SAABRE and other transaction   
   > processing systems.   
      
   Their idea of “real time” was responding in a few seconds, before the user   
   got frustrated enough to hit SEND again.   
      
   Meanwhile, Linux recently mainlined the PREEMPT_RT patches, where the   
   definition of “real time” is being able to provide sub-millisecond   
   response to playing or recording sound samples for pro audio.   
      
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