<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 21:27, Vasili I. Galchin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vigalchin@gmail.com">vigalchin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>From the context of #2, I can tell the author didn't mean all of the "?"'s but instead maybe "!".</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>More likely — or • and they got remapped to ?s by incorrect encodings.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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. <br>
(...) </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">attending non-determinism. No "OS function calls" seems way over the top.<br></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms<br>
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