I seriously doubt that any Windows operating system is real time. The .NET framework and all that happens behind the scenes isn't a real time framework.
Lets put it into context. Would you want to sit on a life support machine running a .NET heart monitoring application on Windows?
Didn't think so
Whether or not it's a .Net application is kindof irrelevent though, since any Windows app can hang up for relatively long periods (in terms of real-time responses) for all sorts of reasons.
You may doubt that any Windows operating system is real time, but:
(Oh, by the way - I've worked writing Medical Diagnostic Applications for the past 19 years, and most heart monitoring systems do NOT need to be real time. We have developed several in .Net; it doesn't matter if there's, say, half a second delay between something occuring and it appearing on a display. Pacemakers, on the other hand... ;)
Cool.
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