[ECOS]: Is eCos Hard Real Time OS ??

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:37:42PM +0530, R Vamshi Krishna wrote:
> 
> Is eCos a Hard Real Time OS ?

No, its a soft real time system. It never give guarantees that task X
will finish by time Z, which is the normal definition of hard real
time. eCos will do its best to ensure that the high priority task gets
to run before the low priority task, which for most embedded systems
is enough.

        Andrew

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