>> More specifically, given that Windows should never, ever, under any
>> circumstances, be running on a single-function device like this, why
>> are all the device drivers being written for Windows?
>
> What would you run instead?

How about just writing the few dozen lines of C is actually takes to 
prod a few bits in the framebuffer, write some stuff on the screen, talk 
to the card reader a bit, and make the dispenser chuck out some money?

OK, you're right, it probably *is* faster to take some code that 
somebody else already wrote. But I still think grabbing the relevant 
parts of (say) the Linux kernel is going to be quicker and easier than 
porting the entire Windows OS (most of which you don't need) to a new 
platform and trying to make it work...

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