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The definition of realtime is vague so saying that something is "not really realtime" just because it is not "realtime computing" is wrong.
by dsun180 7y ago
The definition of realtime is vague so saying that something is "not really realtime" just because it is not "realtime computing" is wrong.
- discreteevent 7y agoIn fairness it was a bit pretentious of whoever decided to call it real-time which was a word with a specific meaning and a very hard earned reputation. 'Live' might have been better.
- ceejayoz 7y ago"You see the updates in real time without having to refresh the page" seems like a perfectly reasonable statement. I submit that being pedantic about such things is frequently its own form of pretension.