RoweBots

RoweBots Research Inc. is a software company, based in Waterloo Region, the software capital of Canada.

RoweBots and its predecessor company Multiprocessor Toolsmiths developed a number of industry firsts in the real-time and embedded operating system space.

Products and innovations

Unison OS, the first commercial heterogeneous multiprocessor embedded operating system fielded in early 1987. Unison was initially used in a broad set of military systems primarily for DoD. Today Unison is in its fifth major version.
Unison version 4, the first ultra tiny nano kernel OS intended for microcontrollers with a full complement of POSIX I/O and POSIX threading (1995).
Remedy Debugger and IDE, 1986 was the first commercial multiprocessor (or multicore) heterogenous cross development debugger with dynamic thread displays.
CopyCat RTOS Simulator, 1985 was the first commercial operating system simulator of a real-time embedded system running on a host workstation. CopyCat had I/O capabilities for networking, file I/O and serial I/O. CopyCat was retired with the move to full POSIX implementations released in 2007.

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