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This is yet another instance of the OS reuse problem, e.g., where airports, banks, medical terminals, etc have all kinds of unwanted features because the softwa
by vbphprubyjsgo 5y ago
This is yet another instance of the OS reuse problem, e.g., where airports, banks, medical terminals, etc have all kinds of unwanted features because the software is based on booting a GUI OS desktop and using hacks to make it display the program. Not valid engineering of course.
- hn_throwaway_99 5y ago"Not valid engineering of course."??? Yes, it would obviously be much more "valid engineering" to have each of these devices have their own custom, invariably much buggier and crappier, OS.