Real-time operating system

Abbreviated as RTOS, a real-time operating system is a computer operating system designed to handle events as they occur. Real-time operating systems are commonly found and used in robotics, complex multimedia and animation, communications and has various military and government uses.

Some examples of real-time operating systems are Chimera, Lynx, MTOS, QNX, RTMX, RTX, and VxWorks.