For most developers, it means programming at the lowest level in the system, talking directly to and controlling hardware. Device drivers represent a specific type of programming at this level.

To some, an operating system is a burden or waste of resources, like those working on embedded systems and other low-power applications. To others it’s necessary, abstracting away hardware so… ...

After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

Consider it the classical equivalent of low-level programming languages. High-level languages provide microarchitectural ...

The quantum network operating system, known as QNodeOS, is fully programmable, meaning that applications can be run at a high level, just like on classical operating systems such as Windows or ...

Rust is particularly good at system-level programming, which includes creating operating systems, file systems, and device ...

Mozilla’s Rust programming language hit its 1.6 release late last week, with stabilizations that make it easier for developers to write the system-level software the language was originally ...

Why it matters: Google is designing an operating system for embedded applications that runs machine learning algorithms. KataOS' main targets are security and privacy protection, working with open ...