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by btashton 2909 days ago
Why when with Windows you can leverage all your banks existing technology and security (including update) policies? CE was(is?) on an enormous amount of systems that you might expect to be an rtos. Windows might not be my first choice now, but in the context of "industrial computer" 15 years ago I would hardly call it a poor choice. Also who is doing the long term maintenance/security auditing on a bunch of custom hardware and os in a bunch of atms all over the world.