Who This Guide Is For

Who This Guide Is For

This guide is written for real-time programmers. You, a real-time programmer, are assumed to be

an expert in the use of your programming language, which must be either C, Ada, or FORTRAN to use the features described here
knowledgeable about the hardware interfaces used by your real-time program
familiar with system-programming concepts such as interrupts, device drivers, multiprogramming, and semaphores

You are not assumed to be an expert in UNIX® system programming, although you do need to be familiar with UNIX as an environment for developing software.