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Originally Posted by Dhomochevsky
While there exist 'Real Time' OS out there, which usually have some special kind of sceduling, I don't believe that the new Windows is one of those. 
The last thing I know is Windows was still using a 20-120ms round-robin scheduler. Did they change that in newer versions? |
The underlying core hasn't changed in eons... MS systems are a general purpose OS with round robin scheduling even for UI "on event" instances. There's nothing wrong with that (other than occasionally MS tries to sell the OS for use as an RTOS when it isn't).
Here's a list of actual realtime OSes (some of which are "extinct"
):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...rating_systems