About This Guide

The System Architectureguide accompanies the Neutrino realtime operating system and is intended for both application developers and end-users.

The guide describes the philosophy of Neutrino and the architecture used to robustly implement the OS. It also covers message-passing services, followed by the details of the Neutrino microkernel, Process Manager, resource managers, Photon microGUI, and other aspects of Neutrino.

At this time, the Neutrino native network manager is still under development and will become part of the product after release 2.0.

Note to Windows users

In Neutrino documentation, we use a forward slash (/) as a pathname delimiter for Neutrino filenames as well as for Windows filenames.

When you type filenames in a DOS shell, remember that you must use a back slash (\) as a pathname delimiter, because the DOS shell may interpret a forward slash as a command-line option.

For files that contain pathnames (e.g. buildfiles, makefiles, configuration files), you should always use the forward slash (/) as a pathname delimiter. For example, both of the following lines in a Neutrino buildfile require forward slashes:

/etc/pass=/home/project/pass

Or:

/etc/pass=E:/home/project/pass