Re: Move on to W2K


UZnal wrote:
I believe you need to find a copy of the embedded windows ce
development kit for version 3.x, which I think corresponds to W2K.

The Windows CE API and DDK are documented in the MSDN Lib April 2001, so I
can have some preliminary info. It looks easy, actually.

IIRC somebody told me that a knowledgeable person could build an entire
release of windows with it.

With some limitations, application memory space is 32 MB, files are also 32
MB. But it has a Web server, web explorer, mail, networking and some more.

The kit includes libs and souce for many platforms including x86 and
the MCA HAL.

That is interesting. But why MCA HAL for a mobile device?

CE wasn't just for mobile devices, but embedded devices as well. We
were looking at it for use in aircraft instrumentation among other
things. I'm thinking POS cash registers or ATMs where there was already
a MCA presence.

Perhaps as an example?

My guess is that the code was done for the beta of W2K and because it
existed it was recycled into the CE release. Remember the beta for W2K
supported MCA, but it was removed for the release. Certainly they
didn't write the code just for CE.

Seems to me that if the build was for x86 and with the MCA HAL, one
might even be able to run regular win32 apps.

"Windows CE supports a subset of the Win32 API set. Some Win32 functions are
not supported at all and no 16-bit Windows functions are supported...."

But that was 3.0, the specs must have changed.

Someone wake me up if I'm dreaming...

We are on a lonely detached planet, a new toy story ...?

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