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Question:  What is the difference between general purpose operating system and Real time operating system?



July 07, 2006 13:53:12 #2
 geebs   Member Since: April 2006    Total Comments: 7 

RE: what is the difference between general purpose op...
 

Hello,

Differences from non real time OS is(i.e. RTOS is)

1.Preemptive priority based scheduling 2.Low interrrupt latency 3.Low context switching(no need to  store and restore  virtual address context) 4.Small and configurable(MicroKernel) 5.Fast 6.No system call overhead 6.Interprocess comunication and synchronisation 7.Multitasking.

     

 

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