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The OED has quotations going back as far as 1953: 1953 Math. Tables & Other Aids to Computation VII. 73 With the advent of large-scale high-speed digital compu
by psykotic 17y ago
The OED has quotations going back as far as 1953:
1953 Math. Tables & Other Aids to Computation VII. 73 With the advent of large-scale high-speed digital computers, there arises the question of their possible use in the solution of problems in ‘real time’, i.e., in conjunction with instruments receiving and responding to stimuli from the external environment. The criteria for satisfactory operation in such real-time service are different from those generally encountered.
- ojbyrne 17y agoThanks for the correction. Anyway the discussion of real-time vs. batch has been going on since (before) I grew up. I would even argue that the term "scalability" bandied about these days is really a reversion to batch processing - even caching algorithms are a form of batch processing.