run-time system

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run-time system - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  run-time system
  run-time support
  
     <programming> (RTS, run-time support, run-time) Library code
     and processes which support software written in a particular
     language running on a particular platform.  The RTS
     typically deals with details of the interface between the
     program and the operating system such as system calls,
     program start-up and termination, and memory management.
  
     (1999-07-26)