ChorusOS is a microkernel real-time operating system designed for embedded systems. Sun Microsystems acquired Chorus Systems, the company which created ChorusOS, in 1997. Sun no longer supports ChorusOS. The founders of Chorus Systems started a new company called Jaluna in August 2002. Jaluna designs embedded systems using Linux and ChorusOS (which they dub "C5"). It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Kernel (computer science). ... A Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is an operating system that has been developed for real-time applications. ... An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system, which is completely encapsulated by the device it controls. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system, which is completely encapsulated by the device it controls. ... Tux is the official Linux mascot. ...

ChorusOS started as the Chorus distributed real-time operating system at INRIA in the 1980s. Over the time, development effort shifted away from distribution aspects to real-time and modularization (componentization). The Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. ... The 1980s, in its most obvious sense, was the decade between 1980 and 1989. ...

The latest source tree of ChorusOS has been open-sourced by Sun on experimentalstuff.com. Jaluna has completed these sources and made available a complete runnable system on sf.net/projects/jaluna.

External links

• Jaluna.com
• David Stott's Summary of ChorusOS
• Sun's ChorusOS 4.0.1 Common Documentation Collection