An oceanographic research buoy utilizes a specialized, single-purpose embedded microcontroller, the MarineDepth-4000, to record water salinity and periodically transmit telemetry data.
Explain two distinct reasons why a system of this nature, unlike a general-purpose operating system, has no requirement for virtual memory.
17 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Computer Science Embedded systems. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.