Posted on 03/16/2023 7:16:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
OS/2 was a joint venture between IMB and microsoft, that is why OS/2 can not be open sourced, because of the microsoft license’s, IMB finished OS/2 and released it. gates used the IBM venture to do windows NT. OS/2 does a better win/dos.
I use OS/2 today!! its still marketed today
” Even if you had a standardized version of C++, you’ll have code that is MBED dependent and if you ported it to another platform it wouldn’t work.”
That’s exactly what the MBED development studio does. Dozens of targets. You select one and a tailored version of their enormous RTOS + peripheral support is produced. Compilations and linking is god-awful fast. It’s all done on a host computer the Github storage of the source code. An executable is downloaded to your PC and you download that via serial port (USB connection) to your target hardware that’s sitting beside you.
Fortunately the processor core is always Cortex so the compiler has only one target for the compiled code.
And Apple isn't???
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