POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Christmas Tradition : Re: Christmas Tradition Server Time
5 Sep 2024 05:24:38 EDT (-0400)
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From: Warp
Date: 12 Dec 2009 19:46:45
Message: <4b243975@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> > (It's also popular for embedded applications, but 
> > that presumably is due to its extreme portability and configurability 
> > more than anything else...)

> It is only popular for embedded operations as Linux, not Unix. Before Linux, 
> nobody used Unix for embedded applications. Now it's popular for embedded 
> applications purely because it's free. It's actually quite a PITA to use on 
> embedded devices.

  Thinking about it, are there *any* other viable free (as in no-cost)
operating systems for embedded systems, other than Linux and NetBSD?

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                                                          - Warp


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