IT-Director.com writes . . .

“It was probably predictable and only a matter of time, but someone has finally decided to do a real-time version of Linux. The company is TimeSys Corporation,an established provider of products and solutions for real-time systems and the new Linux version is called, rather unimaginatively, TimeSys Linux/RT. TimeSys claims that its version of Linux is the first to extend the open-source kernel to provide predictable real-time response. To its credit TimeSys has chosen to extend the Linux kernel rather than layer a proprietary real-time OS over Linux.”

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