On 10/24/07, Robert Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what does it mean when a program is embedded
If you are talking about an embedded system, this is hardware that is
used as controller for other hardware, like a car, a nuclear reactor,
a digital mixer, or whatever. The computer hardware typically doesn't
use an operating system like Windows. Programming for such hardware is
different than programming in C on a 'hosted' system like your PC,
since you will typically have much more limited memory, no filesystem,
and in many cases, a reduced instruction set.
I'm sure a search on Wikipedia or Google will lead you to more
information than you ever wanted on the topic.
-- Brett
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