Thank you all for the extensive information on real time. However,
it's become quite apparent that what I was looking for is in no
way real time and has nothing to do with real time, and it was
horribly wrong of me to use the term in the first place.

All I was suggesting was a way to give a process as many system
resources (CPU in the case of this modem) as it needed, within the
bounds that you could still log in to the system and kill the
process.

cjs
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