[aiharkness]

I finally looked up the definition of a real time operating system. What I got out of what I read is a RTOS provides some capability with almost guranteed certainty according to some time requirement. In plain terms, the application takes priority, and the RTOS deals with application demands in real time, for all practical intents and purposes. An example could be a robot on an assembly line, where an object must be available or an operation performed at a specific moment in time.