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Knowing some of the past discussions, and having had some recent discussions of my own, I clipped the following from WWW.webster.com.
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Main Entry: determinism
Function: noun
Date: 1846
1 a : a theory or doctrine that acts of the will, occurrences in nature, or social or psychological phenomena are causally determined by preceding events or natural laws b : a belief in predestination
2 : the quality or state of being determined
deterministic / adjective
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I think meaning 1 is what was intended. So, when we call a network deterministic, we are saying what? Determinism has nothing to do with response time, but rather that every communication is
guaranteed to get a response?
For example, AB RIO is deterministic, but AB DH+ is not???
Also, anyone have a story on how this word became a technical term?
Anthony Kerstens P.Eng.
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Main Entry: determinism
Function: noun
Date: 1846
1 a : a theory or doctrine that acts of the will, occurrences in nature, or social or psychological phenomena are causally determined by preceding events or natural laws b : a belief in predestination
2 : the quality or state of being determined
deterministic / adjective
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I think meaning 1 is what was intended. So, when we call a network deterministic, we are saying what? Determinism has nothing to do with response time, but rather that every communication is
guaranteed to get a response?
For example, AB RIO is deterministic, but AB DH+ is not???
Also, anyone have a story on how this word became a technical term?
Anthony Kerstens P.Eng.