Embedded systems?

[Kragen Sitaker]

Joshua Shriver writes:
> How can you run a program w/o a ui? If it's for embedded systems say a SBC
> board, and yo uwanted to connect via a serial connection to run and setup
> things how would it be possible w/i a UI?

It wouldn't.  But a lot of embedded systems --- numerically, by far the
majority --- do not include provisions for someone to connect via a
serial connection to setup things.

> I'm trying to get a feel for the OS. I though it was a Sys V like OS with
> the look/feel of Unix.

EROS is not a UNIX-like OS.  It is probably less like UNIX than any OS
you've ever used; in particular, it's much less like UNIX than VMS,
MS-DOS, MacOS, ITS, Windows, and Windows NT are.  If you've used MVS,
you have used an OS that is farther from UNIX than EROS is.

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