After introducing interruptsand 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 ...

With the demands of 3-D and CG movie-making, plus the need for real-life spaces that look like they could be the inside of a computer, it’s easy to see why Kosinski’s architecture background ...

The foreground/background architecture consists of two main parts–the foreground comprises the interrupt service routines (ISRs) that handle asynchronous external events in a timely fashion, and the ...

Architecture never crossed my mind until I was in my 30’s. It was perhaps more the result of an early mid-life crisis rather than enlightened intellectual curiosity.