I can recommend a few:
For a historical overview and general introduction, take a look at a fun
and quickie one:
Phillip A. Laplante, Eileen P. Rose, and Maria Gracia-Watson. An
Historical Survey of Early Real-Time Computing Developments in the
U.S.. Real-Time Systems, Volume 8, Numbers 2/3, 1995, pp 199-213.
You will also find a few more interesting articles in that particular
Volume spanning development around the globe and not too heavily
technical in nature.
When you are finished with that one, then I would recommend that you
take a look at the following book:
Phillip A. Laplante. Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis, an
Engineer's Handbook, Second Edition. IEEE Press, New York, 1997.
It's rather a fun read and you will not be dizzied by theory. If you
want theory then I recommend that you take a look at authors such as
Nissanke and Stankovic. Nissanke's book (Real Time Systems), in
particular, is an excellent source but I do not recommend that book too
much for the faint at heart.
Once you have familiarized yourself with Laplante's book and are heavily
into designing your static scheduling real time applications, then keep
the following book handy:
Mark Klein, Thomas Ralya, Bill Pollak, Ray Obenza, and Michael Harbour.
A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate
Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Boston, 1993.
All of these sources should help you scratch the surface. You'll find
that the field is extremely vast and there are many views and approaches
to attacking the same problem.
I hope that this helps.
-Edgar
Tony Mouawad wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a few good books that deal with "real time"
> programming and operating systems at a very fundamental level. It
> seems I was only after a system that could do something EXACTLY
> everytime I needed it to do something and that's where rtlinux came
> into play. Now I'm even more curious about the evolution of real time
> OS's and the philosophies and the technologies... hmmm, I'm quite
> curious! - Tony
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