Resources

Cheddar - A open-source real time scheduling simulator. Cheddar should run on Linux, Solaris and win32 boxes. Cheddar provides tools to do simulations with classical real time scheduling algorithms and tools to test task feasability.
beru.univ-brest.fr/~singhoff/cheddar

Dedicated Systems: Real-Time Encyclopedia - Some very useful material including the study: What makes a good RTOS?
www.dedicated-systems.com/encyc/

Dedicated Systems: Real-Time Market overview - Current version.
www.dedicated-systems.com/encyc/market/market.htm

Dedicated Systems: RTOS buyer's guide - Current version. Is an RTOS missing, or a description wrong? Log in and fix it.
www.dedicated-systems.com/encyc/buyersguide/rtos/Dir228.html

DOORS: Design of Object-Oriented Real-time Systems - Goal: develop method to design real-time systems that: is practical for large scale, complex systems; includes support of OO techniques to achieve reuse in implementations; helps visualize and test design concepts during early stages when main decisions are made. Carleton University, Ottawa Canada.
www.sce.carleton.ca/rads/doors.html

E. Douglas Jensen's Real-Time for the Real World - It's not your father's real-time! Why what you think you know about real-time computing and distributed real-time systems probably won't work. Slowly replacing Realtime-os.com.
www.real-time.org/

FAQs comp.realtime - Frequently Asked Questions of Newsgroup comp.realtime.
www.faqs.org/faqs/realtime-computing/faq/

FORTS: Fault-Tolerant, Real-Time Systems - Mainly research on RT-Mach, also RT resource management, RT fault-tolerant scheduling for multiprocessors, verification and validation, error detection and recovery, technology transfer to space and avionics applications. Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh.
www.cs.pitt.edu/FORTS/

IEEE-CS TC-RTS - IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. Superb, high quality, large link page.
cs-www.bu.edu/pub/ieee-rts/Home.html

Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) VxWorks, QNX and Others - Many topically classified links on RTOSs (general, lecture notes, research, basics, concepts), embedded systems, VxWorks and Tornado, QNX, Windows CE, Palm OS. [OneSmartClick.Com]
www.onesmartclick.com/rtos/rtos.html

Real-Time & Database Systems Laboratories - CCS Labs: Computer Science: University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Broadcast on Demand, Composability and Fault Tolerance, Spring Project, Support for real-time computing in general purpose operating systems.
www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/

Real-time systems - Very useful. Many fine links. Part of larger site.
www.eg3.com/real/

Real-Time Systems: The International Journal of Time-Critical Computing Systems - Quarterly journal. Free tables of contents, with full text for subscribers.
www.springerlink.com/content/100334/