OK. Here is a general question for this thread regarding Windows CE.
Pardon my ignorance, but does Windows CE use the same protected-mode operation for its execution as all the other Windows 32-bits inherited as a legacy of Intel's x86 design? If so, does it still require all that nasty device-driver development environment to allow code at user-mode to communicate with devices?
If so, then a 50us interrupt response time for Windows CE is irrelevant, since it will take much longer to get a round-trip to user-code and back. VxWorks, at least without an MMU, simply reads and writes registers to drive devices, and can respond to interrupts in 10 us or less, round trip. While lack of protected mode theoretically makes a VxWorks system less robust than Windows CE, I have never found this to be a problem in real embedded work. Plus, VxWorks is rock solid, whereas Windows never has been, and at less than 2 years old, Windows CE cannot possibly be. At least with VxWorks, I only have to worry about testing my own code.
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