question about unix & real time

[Arthur David Olson]

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> Interrupt latency can be improved dramatically by putting UNIX's critical
> regions under semaphore control rather than the simplistic interrupt
> lock-out that is currently used.

The interrupt lock-out used by UNIX is simple rather than "simplistic."
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