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		userbinator on Nov 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Open Letter to Intel Earlier versions of ME (the one with an ARC core) used ThreadX RTOS --- proprietary, commercially licensed. I guess Intel eliminated a huge chunk of those licensing costs by moving to x86+Minix instead.

mrighele on Nov 7, 2017 [–]

Which in a way it is better also for end users. At least we don't have to pay the license for a software that we don't want to run on our computer :-)

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