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The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known ...

Modern real-time operating systems support multitasking with a priority-based pre-emptive scheduler. Each concurrent task (or “thread”) in an application program is assigned a priority number. It is ...