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To: Knight who wrote (7623)4/12/2000 9:50:00 PM
From: lkj  Read Replies (2) of 10309
 
however, for the reason mentioned above, I doubt they, or anyone else, will ever become "the Microsoft of the embedded world." What allowed Microsoft to dominate the consumer space was application capture.

Knigt,

I would have agreed with you if weren't the existence of Palm. In my opinion, the Palm OS will do to handhelds what Windows did to the PC.

Also, I think the consumer market is huge. My old company sold over 20 million units of MPEG decoders last year. Each with a 32 bit MIPS class processor in it. Imagine if they all had an OS. That's only the tip of the iceburg. The consumer electronics market may only be 7% of the embedded OS market in the past, but that's certainly going to change. This market is going to be 10 times as big as PC.

Khan
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