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Lost Art of Computer Programming: Behind The Scenes at The Embedded Systems Conference

[ Thanks to Curt Brune for
this link. ]

“For those you who have never been to an embedded systems
conference let fill you on a few details. This conference deals
with the fundamental components for making consumer and industrial
electronic devices. You don’t see a lot of polished, marketable
consumer products like cellphones or game consoles–the exciting
things you see are the next generation silicon, processor cores,
software tools, development tools and serial interconnect
products.

“With that said all the big hardware players had a GNU/Linux
offering, some partnering with the likes of MontaVista, Red Hat,
LynuxWorks and TimeSys. Everybody has development boards and board
support packages (BSP) for GNU/Linux…”

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