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From: Andrew Warren <fastfwd
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To: .....PICLISTKILLspam.....MITVMA.MIT.EDU <EraseMEPICLISTspam_OUTTakeThisOuTMITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thursday, 9 October 1997 16:03
Subject: Re: [OT, somewhat] Windows CE...
William Chops Westfield <PICLISTspam_OUTMITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:
{Quote hidden}> I was surprised to see such a push for Windows CE at the ESC. Is
> WINCE really an embedded operating system? I thought it was a small
> personal computer operating system, which is an entirely different
> thing, at least to me...
>Bill:
>As far as I can tell, Windows CE is just a way for Microsoft to scare
>people away from Embedded Java until Gates, Ballmer, and Myhrvold can
>figure out what the embedded-systems world is all about and give us
>what we REALLY want.
OTOH, I haven't seen anything from embedded java that I really want. Java
looks nice, but not nice enough to switch from c++. What embedded java h/w
is available in the characteristics WinCE h/w must have?
I *can* see attractions in a modicum of code transportability between
Win95 -> CE
I *can't* see much of this rather vapourous java, other than implementations
running on existing non-native java platforms.
Am I missing the point?
>Whether you call Win-CE (or Embedded Java) an "embedded operating
>system", "real-time operating system", or "small personal computer
>operating system" is unimportant... The important thing is that Sun
Yes, thats just playing with aliases <g>
>and Microsoft will be battling each other in a market that's been
>stagnating for a while, so good things are bound to come from the
>competition.
MS are probably happy - it gives them someone to point to when the
anti-trust suits get too close...
>Not that it matters to ME, of course... I write for half-K PICs
>with 25 bytes of RAM.
Where do you want to go today - well, a PIC without segmentation would be
nice, for a start.
