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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (5491)	6/16/1999 5:34:00 PM
From: Wysiwyg	Respond to of 10309

Ramsey, I share your admiration for Qualcomm, which is why I specified them in my example. I think - not positive, though - that Qualcomm generally uses VxWorks as the RTOS in their phones. In the pdQ phone, there will be both a RTOS for the cell phone functions and a RTOS for the Palm Pilot functions. Since COMS has never promoted its palm computing platform as an RTOS, that makes sense. When QCOM develops its Win CE phone, I'd like to know whether or not they are going to again use 2 RTOSs or are they going to try and make Win CE do double duty. Let me put this plainly - I don't think they are planing to use Win CE for the more critical communication functions; but I have no way of knowing. I posed this question to the forum not to start a debate but to prompt someone to make a contact who could answer this question. If Qualcomm doesn't plan on using Win CE in a Win CE smart phone, that would give a pretty good indication of Win CE's future as a RTOS in the time sensitive arena of communications. Thanks again, Wysiwyg