On Thursday, March 05, 2020 03:27:09 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > That is lieing to the user, and not nice at all. > > Disable your caches! now! > > What? Your computer is just 1/3 as fast as it used to be? > > Computing is about lying -- and trying to not get caught.
Not always, or not in this respect. There are applications where, in essence, a real time kernel is (leading to quick responses to real world events or similar are) necessary, sometimes for the protection of life or limb (as Gene has alluded to).