This title is literally true for me. During the 70s my dad & his team built a programming language & runtime environment for realtime control systems in power

This title is literally true for me. During the 70s my dad & his team built a programming language & runtime environment for realtime control systems in power stations. It was called Cutlass, and it's still in (dwindling) use today. In my dad's context, the term 'realtime' drew the most useful distinction between types of system in that context. In the web days, the term is used slightly differently, but still draws broadly the most useful distinction within the context. And lastly in media, the tech industry and computer subcultures have a pretty bad track record of protecting words from mis-use... troll, hacker, repo, pull-request, etc. all have comically uninformed usage. You don't quarrel with folk who buy ink by the barrel, nor do you get far telling them that they're doing language wrong. Personally this isn't an issue I choose to care about, language is contextual after all, but even if you do my advice would be to save your blood pressure for a fight you have a hope of winning.