Real Time Operating System Real-time systems are defined as those systems in which the correctness of the system depends not only on the logical result produced, but also the time at which the result produced. User convenience and resource utilization are secondary concern to these systems. Real time systems have many events that must be accepted and processed in a short time or within certain deadline. Such applications include: Rocket lunching Flight control Robotics Telephone switching equipment Fire and smoke sensor etc. Real time systems are classified into two categories: Hard Real Time System Soft Real Time System Hard Real Time System A system is said to be hard real time system if the deadline is not met the system is said to have failed. Penalty due to missing deadline is a higher order of magnitude than the reward in meeting the deadline The task deadlines are of the order of micro or milliseconds. Examples: : Industrial contro...