[Freebase-discuss] Want to refactor real-time operating system as sub-type of operating system

Jeff Donner jeffrey.donner at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 02:51:38 UTC 2011


Hi; it seems to me that real-time operating system:

    http://www.freebase.com/view/en/real-time_operating_system

should be a sub-type of operating system:

    http://www.freebase.com/view/computer/views/operating_system

    /computer/operating_system

yet real-time operating system doesn't act like an ISA of operating
system, at least, not as a sub-type. 'real-time operating system'
isn't a type eg, which is what I would expect, and it acts more like
an instance. I'd want to be able to make some OSes be RTOSes.

My use case is that I'd like to distinguish them, but ISA is just
fine. Of course RTOSes are OSes, and if ISA works the way I think I
wouldn't expect that this change would damage anyone's list of OSes,
just that, now, you could also pull out RTOSes separately. Or, do I
just need to read more deeply somewhere?

Thanks for input;
Jeff


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