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A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) intended to serve real-time

application requests.
A key characteristic oI an RTOS is the level oI its consistency concerning the amount oI time it
takes to accept and complete an application's task; the variability is fitter
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. A hard real-time
operating system has less jitter than a soft real-time operating system. The chieI design goal is
not high throughput, but rather a guarantee oI a soIt or hard perIormance category. An RTOS
that can usually or generally meet a deadline is a soIt real-time OS, but iI it can meet a deadline
deterministically it is a hard real-time OS

An early example oI a large-scale real-time operating system was the Transaction Processing
Facility developed by American Airlines and IBM Ior the Sabre Airline Reservations System.
Currently the best known, most widely deployed, real-time operating systems are
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O RTLinux
O 'xWorks
O Windows CE
O OSE

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