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  1. In computing, program that responds to events
  2. in the world as they happen, as, for example,
  3. an automatic pilot program in an aircraft
  4. must respond instantly to correct course
  5. deviations. Process control, robotics, games,
  6. and many military applications are examples
  7. of real-time systems.
  8.