[ale] "real-time" (was Linux job)

[Pete Hardie]

Re: "Realtime"

A number of jobs ago, I worked at a company using the Cadre software
tools suite, whihc had a FSM tool with hooks for "realtime" events. 
The manual for that tool had a cute story:

It seems that several sfotware engineers were discussing realtime
event processing, and each was subtly bragging about the speed of
their system.  The one engineer piped up that she was working on the
system that provided telemetry for the atomic bomb tests, where the
bomb was suspended in a subterranean hole at one end of a 100m beam,
and the telemetry equipment was at the other end.  Since the explosion
vaporized things as it hit them, the telemetry equipment had to get
its signals up the wire ahead of the blast, which included the EM
pulse.

That won the night.

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