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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>> What about the bank keeping track of your money?
> Not realtime, or at least not hard realtime.

Ok, millisecond deadlines wasn't really the right thing to look at.  But
anyway, yeah, the bank computer is not even slightly a realtime system.
If the bank computer tracking your money is down for 5 minutes there
will be a minor panic at the bank's internal support desk and an
investigation afterwards to find out what happened (I know someone who
works at one of those desks so I hear about this sometimes) but it's not
that big a deal in the scheme of things.  If there's a 3 hour outage it
might make the headlines, but it's still not comparable to anything like
a plane crash.  The main US interbank transfer system (ACH) takes 2 or 3
days to clear a payment.