nett@gonzo.ETA.COM (Jerry Nettleton) (11/09/88)
What are your favorite books on RTOS? Which books would you recommend for someone developing one? How about for someone who is designing applications using an RTOS system? Jerry Nettleton email: nett@gonzo.eta.com Software Engineer or nett%gonzo.eta.com@uc.msc.umn.edu ETA Systems, Inc. usps: 1450 Energy Park Drive 612-642-3694 St. Paul, MN 55108
koll@ernie.NECAM.COM (Michael Goldman) (11/19/88)
I'm just learning about RTOS's as well so I'm interested in any one
else's comments. There is a new collection of IEEE papers published
under the title "Tutorial: Hard Real-Time Systems", Computer Society
Order No. 819, IEEE Catalog No. 88-70419. Order from:
computer Society of the IEEE
terminal Annex
PO Box 4699
Los Angeles, CA 90080
You can phone order from the IEEE Servvice Center, 445 Hoes Lane,
Piscataway, NJ and I don't know the phone no.
The book is a collection of papers dating from 1984-1988 with some
intro notes, and an 8 page bibliography of books and papers.
As I get into RTOS's, I find that they aren't too different from
OS's in general so Rochkind's book "Advanced UNIX Programming",
particularly the sections on IPCs in Chap. 7 & 8 is of interest as
are other books on OS's. UNIX does not provide the control over
task prioritization that RTOS's require so a look at other OS's is
desirable from an educational view.
I've learned a lot from looking at the literature and manuals provided
by vendors of RTOS's. By seeing their solutions you realize what some
of the problems are. In particular, Ready Systems (VRTX),
(408)736-2600,
and Software Components Group (pSOS+), (408)437-0700 are good.
The book by Andrew Tannenbaum on OS's is well written and reasonably
complete.
Gambatte ! :)
Michael Goldman