REAL TIME SYSTEM is the study of hardware and software systems that are subjected to a real-time constraint, for example operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints referred to as deadlines.
A real-time system is one which controls an environment by receiving data, processing them, and returning the results sufficiently quickly to affect the environment at that time.
Real-time systems depending upon their time of response, as well as their deadlines, are classified as