Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
by ab71e5 on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:02PM
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An RTOS compared to bare metal just means it is some nice abstractions that you would expect from an OS : tasks, mutexes rtc.
An RTOS compared to an OS like linux basically just means it is deterministic, you can guarantee some interrupt is handled within a certain time. Not necessarily faster
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
by araes on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @04:04PM
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Cool, thanks for the clarification. The Wiki article was kind of confusing and seemed to refer to a bunch of topics from back in the tape punching days.
An RTOS compared to an OS like linux basically just means it is deterministic, you can guarantee some interrupt is handled within a certain time. Not necessarily faster