Technological advantages over Linux

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 01:43:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions
wrote:
>On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:26:56 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>>That's not an embedded system  
>
>*?*
>
>On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:28:20 -0500, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
>>On 2020-02-15 19:00, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote:
>>  
>>> Seriously, when I use the public bus to go to work, I often see a
>>> blue screen and some output of error messages, with paths using
>>> backslashes.    
>>
>>If the bus gets you to work anyway, then I guess that Windows machine 
>>doesn't do anything important.  
>
>I suspect what I often see on the displays is just responsible to show
>the names of the next stops and to display advertisings, but nothing
>else. The motor or any other technical system of the buses might be
>handled by a separated Windows or any other operating system.

PS:

From time to time humans manually count getting in and out passengers. I
wonder if they verify the computer network or if photoelectric sensor
and RFID bus ticket readers etc. aren't connected with a control center.

Sometimes displays at the bus stops show exactly when the next bus
does arrive and sometimes those time values are completely off.