What I was taught is that hard real time has a bounded response time: we are always able to respond to an event in less than some specified time T. It doesn't mean fast, just that there is a hard ...

Real-time is an often misunderstood and misapplied property of operating systems. One definition of the term can be found in the FAQ for the comp.real-time newsgroup: “A real-time system is one in ...

Many market sectors, such as financial trading, defense, industry automation and gaming, long have had a need for low latencies and deterministic response time. Traditionally, custom-built hardware ...