On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 21:27, Vasili I. Galchin <vigalc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> From the context of #2, I can tell the author didn't mean all of the "?"'s > but instead maybe "!". > More likely — or • and they got remapped to ?s by incorrect encodings. > The OS QNX is a hard real-time OS that uses a message passing IPC. I have > worked QNX and have written a device driver for QNX. > (...) attending non-determinism. No "OS function calls" seems way over the top. > It's not over the top; it's traditional embedded device programming, where there isn't an OS available, just a simple BIOS (and I don't mean the MS-DOS one). I suppose kids these days expect even embedded environments to be fairly high end CPUs with full memory management and full OSes... nope. There's even still ladder logic out there — and at least one recent Haskell package aimed at programming for it. -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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