Google Interview Question

What is an RTOS? How different is it from a conventional OS

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Mar 10, 2010

I mentioned about deterministic interrupt latency, context switch time and system calls.

Anonymous

Mar 21, 2010

RTOS basically refers to "Kernel" with advance preemptive time scheduling. Conventional OS is Kernel+applications+shell+programs with kernel having regular time scheduling.