Disclaimer: RTLinux was sold to WindRiver Systems in 2007 See also The RTLinux patent 5,995,745
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RTOS design and embedded system development
Real-time operating systems are either a solved problem or a backwater of engineering design. Threads, semaphores, mutexes, some basic I/O, priority scheduling all of this
Read moreWind River purchased by Intel
If anything, Wind River’s inability to breakout, despite a once Microsoft-like position of dominance, is a by-product of their failure to meaningfully go “up the
Read moreAre threads evil? (updated)
This paper by Prof. Edward Lee explains something of why “threads” are such a painful abstraction. As Prof. Lee notes, threads intrinsically create unspecified program
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