Hetero Unions and Changing Your Name
Jim Turley
Jan 26
|12:04
Last Updated on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:57
A real-time operating system (RTOS) used to be just a tiny microkernel of code. Nowadays they’re growing into fully featured operating systems with their own development tools and third-party support. Just a few months ago, Intel paid $884 million in cash to acquire RTOS vendor Wind River Systems. Clearly, we've moved beyond a few kilobytes of microkernel code.
Another case in point is QNX, makers of the popular Neutrino RTOS. With help from desktop-software heavyweight Adobe, QNX ported Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash software to Neutrino. Now you can have Flash animation on your embedded systems, at least so long as you’re using Neutrino. It’s an interesting match.