Software and technical complex: training. allowance/South. Ros. gov. Tech. Un-t. Novocherkassk: YURGTU, 2010. 292 s. The manual briefly provides a classification of operating systems and controllers that meet real-time requirements. Their main characteristics and parameters are given. The modern concept of their choice in the synthesis of the structure of automated control systems of technological processes that meet the requirements of solving real-time problems. is presented. It is intended for students of technical universities, where the course of the Real-time System is included in the group of general educational disciplines of the State Educational Standard for the Training of Specialists in the Framework of Higher Professional Education ..