Preface
Having worked with real-time operating systems (RTOSes) throughout my career—applying them, supporting users, and writing them myself—it was inevitable that I would write about them at some point. Indeed, over the years I have written countless articles, blog posts, and conference presentations on the topic. Even my first book, Programming Dedicated Microprocessors, which was published way back in 1986 and I often claim to be the first book ever on embedded software, had a chapter covering a simple task scheduler.
This book has quite a long history. Back in the 1990s, Accelerated Technology developed an RTOS product called Nucleus. This went on to be the most widely deployed operating system on the planet, with over 5 billion instances ...
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