I figure I've got about 40 computers scattered around my home. Am I the Imelda Marcos of pcs? Nope. I have only two of that variety of thinking machine. The rest of my computers—actually microprocessors—are hidden in appliances, telephones, cars, programmable thermostats and all the other machines controlled by the kind of cheap, reliable chips called "embedded processors." Where there are processors, there are operating systems. So I have about 40 operating systems running in my house, all but two of them pretty darned small.
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