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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Apr 2009 21:44 UTC, submitted by poundsmack

BeRTOS is a real time operating system suitable for embedded platforms. It runs on many microprocessors and microcontrollers, ranging from 8-bit to 32-bit CPUs and even PCs. It's free and open source, licensed under the GPLv2.

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RE: not a misnomer

by Laurence on Tue 28th Apr 2009 14:04 UTC in reply to "not a misnomer"

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the name Bernie Innocenti pops up quite often if one cares to browse browsing code and documentation on the project's wiki i guess that's the project's founder and main author, then i think BeRTOS is more about "Bernie's RealTime OS", rather than "BeOS RealTime"...

...putting one's name in the project's name may appear a bit lame but arent' many of us using a unix like kernel named like his author for all but an ending letter?

I see you're point, however Linus didn't choose the name Linux:

Sept. 1991:
Version 0.01 of Torvald's project is made available via ftp.funet.fi. Ari Lemmke, the systems administrator, gives the directory the name Linux.

http://www.linux.org/info/linux_timeline.html

This is a bit of a moot point though as I don't see a problem with OS / Kernels named after the author. It's their product after all.

Edited 2009-04-28 14:08 UTC

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