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As fast as required. A real-time system must respond to a signal, event or request fast enough to satisfy some requirement. Real time often refers to process control and embedded systems. For example, space flight computers must respond to changing conditions in order to keep the rocket ship on course. Industrial robots must respond quickly in order to keep the assembly line moving at full speed. Antilock brakes and other driving assist systems must respond to changing road conditions immediately in order to benefit the driver and vehicle. See embedded system, real-time audio, real-time video and real-time search.

Videoconferencing and Gaming
Videoconferencing requires real-time systems that can transmit video across the network and display it at the other end as quickly as the camera is recording it. Gaming is another real-time application. The system must respond to the user's inputs and render video frames on screen fast enough to simulate realistic motion.

Business Systems - Not Really
The typical transaction processing system is not considered real time even though it does update databases immediately. However, in the past, as business information systems became fast enough to respond to queries and updates in only a second or two, they were called real-time systems. See online.

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No references found	Papers address topics in the research, development, and design of embedded systems, including embedded systems in architecture, software, hardware, real-time computing, testing and verification, image and graphics processing, hardware/software co-design, pervasive/ubiquitous computing, wireless sensor networks, power-aware computing, security and dependability, system on chip (SoC) and multi-core based systems, and embedded multimedia systems. Embedded software and systems symposia; proceedings by SciTech Book News This latest support for real-time computing on Linux is the result of years of contributions to the open-source community by SGI, which has consistently identified hold-offs and submitted kernel modifications that, once accepted into the Linux kernel, have resulted in better latencies. SGI UNVEILS SGI PROPACK 5 FOR LINUX by Mainframe Computing BlueStep's configurable software gives customers the Internet infrastructure to deliver information, manage projects, and share real-time computing power across an organization--regardless of complexity, size, or location. Bluestep, Inc by Association Management	Real Presence Real Programmer Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal Real Property Real Right Real Soon Now real source real storage real tennis real time Real Time Streaming Protocol real unimodular group real user real variable Real Video Real Wages Real World real-space-transfer transistor real-time real-time audio real-time chat real-time clock Real-Time Common Design Language real-time communications real-time compression Real-time computing real-time conferencing real-time control system real-time credit card processing Real-Time Euclid real-time holographic interferometry real-time image real-time information system Real-Time Mentat Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling real-time operating system Real-Time Operating System Nucleus real-time operation Real-Time Pascal real-time processing real-time programming real-time rendering real-time search real-time strategy real-time structured analysis real-time system Real-time systems Real-Time Transport Protocol real-time video real-valued function RealAudio	Real-Time Blackhole List Real-Time Business Real-time Business Reporting Technology Real-Time Case Method Real-Time Channel-Based Reflective Memory real-time chat Real-time clock Real-time clock Real-time clock Real-Time Clock Address Strobe Real-Time Clock Flag Real-Time Collaboration Real-Time Collaboration Group Real-Time Collaborative Editing Systems Real-Time Command Real-Time Common Design Language Real-Time Common Object Request Broker Architecture Real-Time Common Operating Environment Real-Time Communication Real-Time Communication Server real-time communications Real-Time Communications Dashboard real-time compression Real-Time Computer Complex Real-Time Computer Facility Real-Time Computer System Real-time computing Real-Time Computing Laboratory Real-Time Computing Network Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications Real-Time Concurrent Constraint real-time conferencing Real-Time Context Engine Real-time control Real-Time Control Message Protocol Real-Time Control Protocol real-time control system Real-Time Control Unit REal-time COsmic Ray Database real-time credit card processing Real-time data Real-Time Data Access real-time data analysis Real-Time Data Assimilation Real-Time Data Base System Real-Time Data Distribution Real-Time Data Exchange Real-Time Data Flow Real-Time Data Link Real-Time Data Monitoring Real-Time Data Services

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Papers address topics in the research, development, and design of embedded systems, including embedded systems in architecture, software, hardware, real-time computing, testing and verification, image and graphics processing, hardware/software co-design, pervasive/ubiquitous computing, wireless sensor networks, power-aware computing, security and dependability, system on chip (SoC) and multi-core based systems, and embedded multimedia systems.

Embedded software and systems symposia; proceedings by SciTech Book News

This latest support for real-time computing on Linux is the result of years of contributions to the open-source community by SGI, which has consistently identified hold-offs and submitted kernel modifications that, once accepted into the Linux kernel, have resulted in better latencies.

SGI UNVEILS SGI PROPACK 5 FOR LINUX by Mainframe Computing

BlueStep's configurable software gives customers the Internet infrastructure to deliver information, manage projects, and share real-time computing power across an organization--regardless of complexity, size, or location.

Bluestep, Inc by Association Management

Real Presence

Real Programmer

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

Real Time Streaming Protocol