A type of operating system embedded into devices, such as cars and consumer devices is called ."

Embedded operating system

Explanation:

An operating system is a system software pre-installed on a computing device to manage or control software application, computer hardware and user processes.

This ultimately implies that, an operating system acts as an interface or intermediary between the computer end user and the hardware portion of the computer system (computer hardware) in the processing and execution of instructions.

Generally, there are different types of operating systems (OS) used for specific purposes and these are;

1. Batch Operating System.

2. Multitasking/Time Sharing OS.

3. Multiprocessing OS.

4. Network OS.

5. Mobile OS.

6. Single User OS.

7. Distributed OS.

8. Embedded or Real Time OS.

An embedded operating system (OS) is also referred to as Real Time OS and it can be defined as a specialized type of operating system designed and embedded into electronic devices, such as cars, automated teller machines (ATMs), traffic lights, digital televisions, point-of-sale (POS) machines, smart watches, digital camcorders, GPS navigation systems, etc. Thus, they're designed to perform specific function(s) or task(s) in microcontroller based electronic devices.

Some examples of embedded operating system (OS) are Arduino, Symbian, Windows mobile/CE, Unison OS, Raspberry PI, Nuttx, iOS, Palm OS, QNX, RTX, etc.