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'''RTMOS (Real-Time Multiprogramming Operating System)''' is an [[operating system]] that supports both [[real-time computing]] and [[multiprogramming]].<ref name=Spang1972>{{cite journal|last=Spang|first=H. A. III|title=The structure and comparison of three real-time operating systems for process control|journal=Automatica (Journal of IFAC)|date=1972|month=January|volume=8|issue=1|pages=49-64|doi=10.1016/0005-1098(72)90009-X|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2244947|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref><ref name="Spang 1974">{{cite journal|last=Spang|first=H. A. III|title=Measurement and Improvement of Memory Allocation in a Process Computer|journal=4th IFAC/IFIP International Conference on Digital Computer Applications to Process Control|year=1974|volume=93|pages=236-247|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-65796-2_20|url=http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-65796-2_20|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref> Multiprogramming operating systems are now considered obsolete, having been replaced by [[computer multitasking|multitasking]] and sometimes the term is being wrongly used for multitasking which adds to the confusion.
 
'''RTMOS (Real-Time Multiprogramming Operating System)''' iswas an [[operating system]] that supports both [[real-time computing]] and [[multiprogramming]].<ref name=Spang1972>{{cite journal|last=Spang|first=H. A. III|title=The structure and comparison of three real-time operating systems for process control|journal=Automatica (Journal of IFAC)|date=1972|month=January|volume=8|issue=1|pages=49-64|doi=10.1016/0005-1098(72)90009-X|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2244947|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref><ref name="Spang 1974">{{cite journal|last=Spang|first=H. A. III|title=Measurement and Improvement of Memory Allocation in a Process Computer|journal=4th IFAC/IFIP International Conference on Digital Computer Applications to Process Control|year=1974|volume=93|pages=236-247|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-65796-2_20|url=http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-65796-2_20|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref> Multiprogramming operating systems are now considered obsolete, having been replaced by [[computer multitasking|multitasking]] and sometimes the term is being wrongly used for multitasking which adds to the confusion.
Today RTMOS generally means an event-driven real-time operating system.
 
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