Embedded operating systems

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 89. Chapters: Real-time operating system, OS-9, QNX, Palm OS, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, FreeDOS, VxWorks, Symbian, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Rockbox, Smallfoot, List of real-time operating systems, Inferno, Cisco IOS, OpenBSD security features, BlackBerry OS, UTasker, QP, Timeline of OpenBSD, Junos, Cosmos, DioneOS, OpenComRTOS, TinyOS, GlobalPlatform, Windows Embedded, ¿Clinux, Nucleus RTOS, Integrity, ECos, Contiki, Operating System Embedded, Symbian Foundation, Series 40, MQX, ChibiOS/RT, PikeOS, Symobi, RTEMS, OSEK, LynuxWorks, A/ROSE, FreeRTOS, Tandy Video Information System, LynxOS, XPC Target, Windows Embedded POSReady, MicroC/OS-II, FunkOS, JavaOS, RT-Thread, TOPPERS project, Passport Carrier Release, Versatile Real-Time Executive, Unison Operating System, ERIKA Enterprise, OS2000, DSPnano RTOS, LeJOS, Mobilinux, Embedded Linux, BeRTOS, DuinOS, Nano-RK, Prex, ExtremeXOS, OS-X, Phoenix-RTOS, Nokia OS, Pilot-link, Matchbox, XMK, Java Card OpenPlatform, TrueCookPlus, BlackBerry Tablet OS, VisualDSP++ Kernel, Series 80, LINX, BrickOS, TiMOS, ¿nOS, LiteOS, Series 30, Embedded operating system, AmiQNX, Convergent Linux Platform, IGUANA Computing, Scout, RTXC Quadros, PSXLinux, NxtOSEK. Excerpt: Symbian is a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Nokia. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user interface component based on S60 5th Edition. The latest version, Symbian^3, was officially released in Q4 2010, first used in the Nokia N8. In May 2011 Symbian Anna was officially released on two new phones the Nokia X7 and E6. Nokia announced Symbian Anna will come to all Symbian^3 phones. Symbian OS was originally developed by Symbian Ltd. It is a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. Some estimates indicate that the cumulative number of mobile devices shipped with the Symbian OS up to the end of Q2 2010 is 385 million. By April 5, 2011, Nokia released Symbian under a new license and converted to a proprietary shared-source model as opposed to an open source project. On February 11, 2011, Nokia announced that it would migrate away from Symbian to Windows Phone 7. In June 22, 2011 Nokia has made an agreement with Accenture as an outsourcing program. Accenture will provide Symbian based software development and support services to Nokia through 2016 and about 2,800 Nokia employees will be Accenture employees at early October 2011. Nokia C6-01, running Symbian^3 The Symbian platform was created by merging and integrating software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Sony Ericsson and Symbian Ltd., including Symbian OS assets at its core, the S60 platform, and parts of the UIQ and MOAP(S) user interfaces. In December 2008, Nokia bought Symbian Ltd., the company behind Symbian OS; consequently, Nokia became the major contributor to Symbian's code, since it then possessed the development resources for both the Symbian OS core and the user interface. Since then Nokia has been maintaining its own code repository