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real-time system

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real-time system

A computer system that responds to input signals fast enough to keep an operation moving at its required speed. Examples are video game computers and videoconferencing systems as well as computers used to control airplanes, space shuttles and other "real" equipment. See real-time information system and real time.


real-time system [′rēl ¦tīm ′sis·təm]
(computer science)
A system in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting.


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1, an update to its real-time system for work-order management, job scheduling, maintenance tracking, SPC/SQC, and barcode labeling.
Researchers at Texas A&M University are developing a web-based real-time system that researchers and the public will be able to use to see where disease-carrying vectors have been spotted.
The real-time system allows us to innovate with our price plans to include prepaid plans, which are critical to penetrating new market segments," said Mike Langston, managing director of BT Retail Products and Enterprises.
 
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