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  • noun computing Real-Time Operating System

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Initialism from real-time operating system ; real-time OS

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  • "Our ThreadX RTOS, which is already deployed in over 800 million devices, offers designers working with the Cortex-A15 processor a responsive, high-performance, low-memory footprint solution for producing compelling products in today's challenging market."

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

  • Because a virtualized environment is operating system agnostic phone vendors can develop both their own Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and use other popular operating systems such as Android, Linux, Symbian or even Windows.

    Ramon Nuez: OK Labs Forging the Mobile Virtualization Movement Ramon Nuez 2010

  • The RTOS creates a "bounded" system, with a high degree of predictability.

    Turning the world into a sensor network 2010

  • As an RTOS, it competes with the in-house OSs of Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and every other company.

    I'm sorry but Sun is pathetic 2007

  • Even its feature phone OS, Bada, is based on another company's proprietary kernel, the Nucleus RTOS.

    unknown title 2011

  • Thema4, on Wind River's VxWorks real-time operating system RTOS.

    Fedegari Autoclavi Selects Wind River for Its Most Sophisticated Industrial Sterilizers - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • Windows®, Android™ and other Linux® operating systems, and Real-time Operating Systems RTOS like ThreadX®; and

    unknown title 2011

  • To meet this challenge, Fedegari Autoclavi chose Wind River's VxWorks RTOS as the foundation for a sophisticated and versatile process controller, which offers a standard solution for Fedegari Autoclavi's global customers.

    Fedegari Autoclavi Selects Wind River for Its Most Sophisticated Industrial Sterilizers - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • The K10 and K20 families will be fully supported by a wide selection of easy-to-use 32-bit tools, including a package of Freescale's MQX RTOS and software solutions, CodeWarrior for MCUs featuring Processor Expert Software, and a complimentary USB stack.

    unknown title 2011

  • Tower System solutions share the MQX real-time operating system (RTOS) and CodeWarrior integrated development environment (IDE), helping designers optimize their software investment by allowing reuse across a broad spectrum of Power Architecture MPUs and MCUs.

    unknown title 2011

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