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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by pjc50 on Monday February 29, 2016 @11:17AM (#11196300)
Such 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.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by voltagex_ on Monday February 29, 2016 @03:11PM (#11198038)
Right, I'd forgotten about POS. Interesting that CE is still in use - I thought everyone would have migrated to Windows Embedded by now.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by pjc50 on Monday February 29, 2016 @04:03PM (#11198479)
We 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.
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