Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 31, 2004, 16:02 |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:30:56 +0300, Dan Sulani <dansulani@...> wrote:
> But if I search for rtemu with 1 m, I get all kinds of interesting stuff.
> Much of it seems to be about computing, especially emulators.
> Any computer people here know what RETMU has to do with?
'emu' is an obvious shortening of 'emulator'; 'RT' may refer to
'real-time' -- that is, programs that are designed to react 'in real
time' to user input, with guaranteed response times in the base code.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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