Thanks, actually, the answer to my question hit me exactly like a soft boiled egg doesn't ten minutes after I posted the question. CIAO - Martin R. Green elimar@bigfoot.com ---------- From: Scott Dattalo[SMTP:sdattalo@unix.SRI.COM] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 1997 9:06 PM To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu Subject: Re: Bit Banging Beckoning Robert Lunn wrote: And in his solutions, Martin R. Green wrote: > I think the last one satisfies all your criteria, but I don't know what > Isosynchronous execution is. "Isosynchronous execution" means that the execution time is constant regardless of the path through the algorithm. Isosynchronous code is very useful for time sensitive applications.