My suspicion is that the author was trying to distinguish total order of events vs. partial order of events. I feel like the reason vector clocks and the like w

My suspicion is that the author was trying to distinguish total order of events vs. partial order of events. I feel like the reason vector clocks and the like were created was to deal with the fact that real-time is problematic in distributed system. There is some response from the author though on this question: http://www.bailis.org/blog/linearizability-versus-serializability/#comment-1613033787 http://www.bailis.org/blog/linearizability-versus-serializab...