Wojciech Puchar wrote:

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>anyway my opinion is that any unix, even as good as NetBSD, shouldn't be
>used in embedded environments, as it's just not designed for it!!!
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>unix is for workstations and servers, able to do lots of work in parallel,
>handle lots of concurrent traffic etc.., not doing few simple things.
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>yes it can do simple things, but on oversized hardware, unless you wan't
>to say that 8-16MB RAM, 100MIPS CPU and megs of flash isn't oversized
>hardware for MP3 player.
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I agree with you that for many embedded applications a full-blown OS 
such as NetBSD would be a waste of resources. But I also think your 
definition of embedded systems is a bit narrow. There are many embedded 
systems that are doing more than "simple things". For example we bought 
a fancy printer for the office a while ago, it turns out it runs NetBSD. 
We use NetBSD in one of our products, an access switch/router, and it 
works very well for us. Sure, our system has a 300MHz CPU, 64MB RAM and 
8MB flash but I still classify it as an embedded system (it's definitely 
not a workstation nor a server).

/Erik