A Real-Time Guarantee May Seem Like an Oxymoron, But Research in Real-Time Scheduling Has Come Up with Useful Tools for Developers. One Such Tool Is Rate-Monotonic Analysis, The Subject of This Overview

Last Month, Crenshaw Explored Some of the Mysteries of Rotation, Using Mathematical Tools Such as Matrices. Now That You Have a Solid Grounding in Expressing Rotational Relationships, It's Time for the Next Level of Spin Ology-Handling Rotational Rates NS +

There Was a Peri-Od in the ANSI/ISO Committee Process When New Language Keywords Were Not at All Welcome. One Result Was That the Meaning of the Static Keyword May Not Always Be Obvious. This Month, Eckel Explores How Static Usage Has Changed in the Evolution of C and C+ +