title: RTOS vs Traditional Firmware Coding
body: <p>I'm fairly new to the embedded world.  I have a little bit of experience on coding firmware for the ARM M0+ based freescale microprocessor.  I am current working on a new project using the CML-5282 development board (M5282LITE) and it comes with RTXC Quadros RTOS.  I was wondering what is the difference between RTOS and just coding in codewarrior IDE.  Do they coexist and RTOS just ease the scheduling?  Or can you replace the IDE with RTOS all together?  I don't have an idea what RTOS is, please give me any insight I'd appreciate it.</p>