EAN: 9783642880513

REAL TIME COMPUTING KARTONIERT (TB)

NATO's Division of Scientific and Environmental Affairs sponsored this Advan ced Study
Institute because it was felt to be timely to cover this important and challengjng subject for
the first time in the framework of NATO's ASI programme. The significance of real-time systems
in everyones' life is rapidly growing. The vast spectrum of these systems can be characterised
by just a few examples of increasing complexity: controllers in washing machines  air traffic
control systems  control and safety systems of nuclear power plants and  finally  future
military systems like the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The import ance of such systems
for the well-being of people requires considerable efforts in research and development of
highly reliable real-time systems. Furthermore  the competitiveness and prosperity of entire
nations now depend on the early app lication and efficient utilisation of computer integrated
manufacturing systems (CIM)  of which real-time systems are an essential and decisive part.
Owing to its key significance in computerised defence systems  real-time computing has also a
special importance for the Alliance. The early research and development activities in this
field in the 1960s and 1970s aimed towards improving the then unsatisfactory software
situation. Thus  the first high-level real-time languages were defined and developed: RTL 2 
Coral 66  Procol  LTR  and PEARL. In close connection with these language develop ments and
with the utilisation of special purpose process control peripherals  the research on real-time
operating systems advanced considerably.

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