"Nieminen Juha" <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote in message
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> Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
> : Sometimes, the program has to do some harm to your computer.  Take a
BIOS flash
> : update (not necessarily your motherboard BIOS, but some other BIOS.)
>
>   I think that you can make anything you like to your computer as root.

Yup.

> : Besides, multitasking, memory protection,
> : etc. take code and resources.  Resources are scarce in many embedded
systems to
> : begin with, and more code means more things that can break.
>
>   How many embedded systems you know that are able to run DOS?-)

All of them.  Hell, I have an 8088 system running DOS 6.22 very stable.

>   I think that there are linux versions that are designed for embedded
> systems.

Yup.  ELKS (http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/), although last time I checked,
it wasn't very usable.

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