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Offline rdg

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Rock Box RTOS
« on: April 05, 2007, 04:53:05 PM »
Can some one tell me what RTOS Rock Box uses or if it uses one?
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Offline saratoga

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Re: Rock Box RTOS
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2007, 04:58:34 PM »
Quote from: rdg on April 05, 2007, 04:53:05 PM
Can some one tell me what RTOS Rock Box uses or if it uses one?

Rockbox is written from scratch, not based on any other OS.  I also would not call it a RTOS, though I'm not really an expert on these things.  Its really just a lightweight co-operative multitasking system:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxArchitecture
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Offline rdg

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Re: Rock Box RTOS
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2007, 05:04:12 PM »
O.K. Thanks. This is what I was looking for.
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