OS1: Types of Operating System – Unit 2: Real-time operating system

The previous unit discussed the disk operating system and its various characteristics and examples. In this unit you will be exposed to the real-time operating system (RTOS), its design philosophies and some of its other characteristic features like scheduling, interrupt handling, etc. 2.0 Objectives • At the end of this unit, you should be able to: • Define and describe the real-time OS • Explain its design philosophies • Describe how its handles tasks such as memory allocation, scheduling, interrupthandling, intertask communication, etc. • State how it is different from the disk OS • Give examples of RTOS