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		jonhohle on Nov 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS From what I've read, "realtime" threads with higher priority could preempt other realtime threads, meaning they could be pre-empted.

4ad on Nov 12, 2011 [–]

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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