After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

One example of real-time operating systems in use today is VxWorks, which is used in NASA's Mars rovers to guide them, and in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft to control avionics systems ...

It will likely change things for what had been, until now, specialty providers of real-time OS solutions for mission-critical systems. Ubuntu, for example, started offering a real-time version of ...