On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:37:16AM +1100, Loki Davison wrote: > Well, think about the name NUMA. If you don't have a deterministic > memory access time then realtime is somewhat difficult. It may not be deterministic, but it is bounded. It is my understanding that a system doesn't need to be completely deterministic. It is suffiecient to know that the worst case is within your boundaries, as I understand it.