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> And why cannot C be augmented by RTOSs and other systems software to
> achieve this?

Can and has been. Of course there are tradeoffs like the safer type
system of Ada vs. the higher popularity (read more libraries and
existing code) of C and the fact that you can invent your own tasking
primitives in C.

Regards -- Markus