Yes. You really don't want your real time threads to have anything to do with the OS after startup sequence. Significant part of the project was learning about

Yes. You really don't want your real time threads to have anything to do with the OS after startup sequence. Significant part of the project was learning about various ways a piece of code can be preempted. Once you get it done, it really is all really nice and predictable. And also a fire hazard because you have disabled things like SMI interrupts that are used by the CPU to figure out if it is overheating...