real-time computing
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study of hardware and software systems that have a "real-time constraint"
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- computing
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- topic's main category
- Category:Real-time computing
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/real-time
- has characteristic
- real-time
- opposite of
- batch processing
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Encyclopedic overview
Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within specified time constraints, often referred to as "deadlines".
The term "real-time" is also used in simulation to mean that the simulation's clock runs at the same speed as a real clock.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “real-time computing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.