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CE? Really? Can you share anything else? I thought even the GPS manufacturers had moved on.
by voltagex_ 11y ago
CE? Really? Can you share anything else? I thought even the GPS manufacturers had moved on.
- pjc50 11y agoSuch as? It's a point-of-sale system that runs on PC tills (Toshiba, IBM etc) and also our own less general-purpose hardware (iMX6). It was written in the 90s as an MFC application. The original system the company was founded on was written in the early 80s in Z80 assembler. The dedicated hardware uses a mixture of Flash and battery-backed SRAM to provide a crash- and powerloss-resistant transaction system.
- voltagex_ 11y agoRight, I'd forgotten about POS. Interesting that CE is still in use - I thought everyone would have migrated to Windows Embedded by now.
- pjc50 11y agoWe use WEC7 - Windows Embedded Compact is CE with two of the letters swapped in the acronym. We're not using 2013 because our BSP hasn't been ported.