An employee at a tech start-up is tasked with selecting an operating system for a new digital thermostat they are developing. The thermostat will have a simple interface to control heating and cooling settings and needs to be reliable and able to run independently of other computer systems. Which type of operating system should the employee recommend for use in the digital thermostat?
An embedded OS is designed for dedicated devices that perform a single or limited set of tasks on resource-constrained hardware. It provides only the services the application needs, resulting in efficiency and stability-exactly what a thermostat requires. A workstation OS targets general-purpose computers, while a mobile device OS includes many features and interface elements that are unnecessary for a thermostat. Firmware offers only low-level hardware control and lacks the higher-level scheduling and application services that an operating system provides.
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