ChibiOS/RT ancestor was an Operating System for Motorola 68000

In 1989 it supported GCC, ran EMACS, was preemptive and

realtime

...but in 1991 Linus Torvalds began the development of Linux

The original full-featured OS turned in a minimalistic, ecient,

RTOS: ChibiOS/RT father

In 2007, after 15 years, it turned to ChibiOS/RT: an open source

RTOS project targeted to embedded systems

The project is lead and mainly developed by Giovanni Di Sirio

ChibiOS/RT started growing in features, ports and users

Every part of the project has been deeply documented (Doxygen)