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diff --git a/book/en/src/preface.md b/book/en/src/preface.md index f833213e..6041dfed 100644 --- a/book/en/src/preface.md +++ b/book/en/src/preface.md @@ -21,6 +21,18 @@ This is the documentation of v1.0.x of RTIC; for the documentation of version * v0.5.x go [here](/0.5). * v0.4.x go [here](/0.4). +## Is RTIC an RTOS? + +A common question is whether RTIC is an RTOS or not, and depending on your background the +answer may vary. From RTIC's developers point of view; RTIC is a hardware accelerated +RTOS that utilizes the NVIC in Cortex-M MCUs to perform scheduling, rather than the more +classical software kernel. + +Another common view from the community is that RTIC is a concurrency framework as there +is no software kernel and that it relies on external HALs. + +--- + {{#include ../../../README.md:7:47}} {{#include ../../../README.md:48:}} |