THE FUCHSIA IS BRIGHT (PINK)!
Having a background in the aerospace industry helps with understanding other market trends: much of the recent operating system development can be analogised by looking at the TU-334 and MD-9x aircraft series. Both of them fizzled out at the end of their relative career, as they were overtaken by rivals based on more modern airfoils.
Operating systems face a similar situation. Standards such as POSIX might have tamed the wild growth of UNIX platforms in the past, but has since become both benefit and curse. For example, implementing POSIX in its entity on a small microcontroller is not particularly entertaining. It, furthermore, has consequences on latencies which can be catastrophic.
At the start of my development career, microcontrollers were slow and cumbersome. Dedicated real-time operating system vendors made a killing with products such as FreeRTOS or ThreadX – they offered extremely stringent latency demands, but had little in terms of GUI or network stacks.
In the past, embedded designers used combinatorial process computers not dissimilar to the Arduino Yun. A classic desktop operating system handled user interaction, while a real-time core managed system control. The miracle
