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|title=Xerox Real-Time Batch Monitor (RBM), Sigma 2/3 Computers, User's Guide

|publisher=Xerox Corporation |accessdate=2017-02-16}}</ref>

However, a system may have the ability to interleave Real-time and other, less time-critical tasks, where the dividing line might for example be response required within one tenth of a second.<ref name=X23/>{{rp|p.1}} In the case of the Xerox RBM (Real-time/Batch Monitor) systems,<ref>a family: Scientific Data Systems SDS Sigma 2 & 3, renamed/combined as Xerox's acquired Xerox Data Systems, Xerox 530.</ref><ref>The SDS Sigma 5, 6 & 7 became the Xerox 560</ref><ref>{{cite book

|url=https://computerarchive.org/files/mirror/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sds/sigma/rbm/901581A_Sigma5_RBM-2_Nov69.pdf

|title=XOs SIGMR 5/7 REAL-TIME BATCH MONITOR (RBM-2)|accessdate=2017-02-16}}</ref> for example, two other

capabilities existed:<ref name=X23/>{{rp|p.2}}

* Computer operator commands ("unsolicited key-in")

* Background job streams (batch jobs)

==Job control languages==