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already available, however only in large cen- tralised congurations. Owing to the correspondingly high software complexity, this led to frequent system failures. Change was brought about a few years later by [...] inexpen- sive minicomputers for military purposes, laboratory automation, process control etc. Software support, es- pecially by real-time operating systems and languages, was almost non-existent.
Initially [...] The research and development eorts aimed towards im- proving the above mentioned unsatisfactory software situation. Thus, the rst and later the majority of high-level real-time languages were dened and …