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Re:Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS by jonhohle on Saturday November 12, 2011 @10:51AM (#3228009)
From what I've read, "realtime" threads with higher priority could preempt other realtime threads, meaning they could be pre-empted.
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Re:Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS by 4ad on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:04AM (#3228040)
That's true of every other RTOS out there, in fact, it's required to be this way in order to provide deterministic latency.
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