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To: Don Mosher who wrote (2893)	3/13/1998 8:58:00 AM
From: the hube	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

All: A very interesting article on sensors and how they may be as important to the next decade as microprocessors and lasers have been to the last two. The article talks only in terms of hardware and results, but if you think software, its got WIND written all over it. John

To: Don Mosher who wrote (2893)	3/16/1998 12:27:00 AM
From: Allen Benn	Respond to of 10309

>My question for you is, do you believe WIND and VxWorks >is in the hunt to be selected as the operating system? With WIND's new browser, the company can provide just about everything a developer would need for the palmtop market-except for application programs! The developer, in this case QualComm, would have to supply the applications, or perhaps involve yet another supplier, like 3Com's PalmPilot unit. Intelligent devices that approximate PCs, NCs or AutoPCs, or even exotic set-top boxes generally involve a different kind of competition than what WIND typically faces in the deeply embedded world. Having said that, however, I have long believed that companies like Geoworks or even the PalmPilot unit, would be better off to forsake the underlying operating system and focus exclusively on graphics and applications. They could do this by migrating their applications to reside on VxWorks. Similarly, VxWorks may well show up in some of the fanciest set-top boxes, thanks to NCI, OpenTV, Spyglass or other application developers. Apparently Geoworks did beef up their underlying OS, but by buying a small RTOS company, not by migrating to VxWorks-a mistake in by book. However, I wouldn't be surprised if 3Com someday shifts PalmPilot over to VxWorks. Let me be the first to say that I don't expect Microsoft to migrate Windows CE graphics and applications over to VxWorks, but you never know. Allen