"Oh. I don't really know anything about the embedded market"
That is why I'm having such an easy time shooting down your blatant support of everything Microsoft does.
"Who are the players in the embedded market?"
Look inside your VCR, garage door opener, microwave oven, thermostat, computer monitor, under the hood of your car, telephone, answering machine, photocopier, printer, fax machine, calculator, childrens' toys that beep and flash lights, the watch on your wrist, your clock radio, your smoke detector, home security system, vending machines, slot machines, modems, gee - I could go on and on. Then write down the company names on all of those products. That's who.
"Is 2MB really that big?"
Yes, it's huge for the very vast majority of embedded systems. There are very few embedded applications where that isn't seen as a large amount of ROM (especially to burden your application with something completely unnecessary and slow).
"I have to believe Windows CE would be a good fit in some applications."
I agree with you here - low-quantity, expensive applications where the designers aren't smart enough to do it the right way, where they can afford to waste money and where reliability doesn't matter. |
