Stankovic, J. A. (1988),
'Misconceptions About Real-Time Computing: A Serious Problem for Next-Generation Systems', Computer
21
(10)
, 10--19
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The author defines real-time computing and states and dispels the most common misconceptions about it. He discusses the fundamental technical issues of real-time computing. He examines specification and verification, scheduling theory, operating systems, programming languages and design methodology, distributed databases, artificial intelligence, fault tolerance, architectures, and communication.