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Subject:real time From:Laurel Meier <LMEIER -at- RCHVMW2 -dot- VNET -dot- IBM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 12 Oct 1994 10:26:12 CDT
If I remember my editing class correctly, you hyphenate real time when
you use it as an adjective (real-time messaging) and you don't when you
use it as a noun (computing in real time). According to my IBM dictionary,
it's hyphenated, but it's listed there only as an adjective.
