19 Jan
2014
19 Jan
'14
9:34 a.m.
On 17 January 2014 20:20, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
At 11:26 AM 1/17/2014, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Some years ago I watched the in-flight movie system on a Lufthansa
flight trying to reboot (the type with one video screen embedded in
the chair in front of you). IIRC it took something between five and
ten minutes to boot.
-Tor
On 01/17/2014 04:54 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Like point-of-purchase systems, right?
- John You cannot install this onto a PC. It is not a PC
OS and it was not
available to the public. It *only* came in the ROM of certain
battery-powered pocket devices.
Not entirely true! WinCE was extensively deployed on x86 thin clients. 
20 Jan
20 Jan
5:44 p.m.
On 19 January 2014 14:34, Tor Arntsen <kspt.tor at gmail.com> wrote:
Some years ago I watched the in-flight movie system on
a Lufthansa
flight trying to reboot (the type with one video screen embedded in
the chair in front of you). IIRC it took something between five and
ten minutes to boot.
It's on the barcode guns here at work. I hate it.
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7:50 p.m.
its not such a bad os. i just happen to like older ones but ones that
can still be useful to a point and usually i can find programs for every
os that i can use to make it do what i need but some programs are so out
dated that they dont even work on the old os even when they do install
they dont work with the current network setups that the never versions
are using. some of the thin clients i dont like cause u cant even log
into them since all they will boot to is a log in screen and if u dont
know the username or password its worthless. maybe someone has some
windows ce stuff still
On 1/20/2014 2:44 PM, John Many Jars wrote:
On 19 January 2014 14:34, Tor Arntsen <kspt.tor at
gmail.com> wrote:
Some years ago I watched the in-flight movie
system on a Lufthansa
flight trying to reboot (the type with one video screen embedded in
the chair in front of you). IIRC it took something between five and
ten minutes to boot.
It's on the barcode guns here at work. I hate it.
21 Jan
21 Jan
4:16 a.m.
On 21 January 2014 00:50, Derrick <rmx44 at aim.com> wrote:
its not such a bad os. i just happen to like older
ones but ones that can
still be useful to a point and usually i can find programs for every os that
i can use to make it do what i need but some programs are so out dated that
they dont even work on the old os even when they do install they dont work
with the current network setups that the never versions are using. some of
the thin clients i dont like cause u cant even log into them since all they
will boot to is a log in screen and if u dont know the username or password
its worthless. maybe someone has some windows ce stuff still
To be fair, it's not the OS exactly, it's the way it's used, in this case.
The OS comes will all sort of things (like Internet Explorer) that you
really don't want for this application. The way it is designed (I
guess) or the way the manufacturers have done things is a pain in the
arse, and makes it cumbersome to work on the things.
I preferred the old units, that ran DOS...
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