Windows CE: Future classic (OT, in a way...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Jun 1998

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   OK.  I just
purchased a Windows CE handheld.  I realized that:
 1) It represents MS's rebirth.  That, along with cross-platform apps, means
 that MS isn't going to be doing to much with Windows 9x/NT after a couple
 years...  Thanks for the tip, Tim.  I'll dump all of my intel stock now. :-)

But buy what ? DEC ?

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   2) It's
lighting fast, and covers all kinds of processors.  The H/PC was a bit of a flop. 
For some reason, not many people wanted to
 buy a machine that looked like Windows95, but ran on slower hardware with
 no application compatibility. 
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  However, I like the new Pilot rip-off, the Palm-sized
PC, better.  And if
 you've never seen their Auto PC for cars, brace yourself for some drooling
 (guaranteed to flop at the current $2K price though).  They're also making
 inroads into embedded systems with CE. 
Here you have only one solution: Buy a Newton - the MP2x00
is _WAY_ cool, neat and just great AND best of all thanks
to Apple it's a brand new out of production classic.

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 > 2) With a MIPS-based handheld, could I get stuff
moving between this and my
> N64? 
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  Sure, just as easily as you can move stuff between the
6502 based Nintendo
 and an AIM-65 (i.e., no way dOOd -- even if the CPU is the same, nothing
 else is).  However, I seem to recall that Microsoft recently signed-up a
 game machine manufacturer for CE, and it was either Nintendo or Sega. 
Sega - and I bet they anounce 'General Failure' as the
commander of the first shut-em-up game :)

Gruss
H.

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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK