WHY NT4 EMBEDDED OVER CE?
If I developed embedded Windows programs for a living, the very first thing I would ask myself is “Why do I have to use Windows NT Embedded 4.0 for anything embedded?” If I want to embed in Bills world, I already have other embedded operating systems, including a Windows-based Windows CE. One answer is the size of the embedded device you are writing to. What I mean by size here is size in the physical or in the hardware, such as memory size or data storage size. Another answer is security. Will your design be used by the military or by kids on the block? Yet another answer may lie in functionality. What does your device have to communicate with? Does it participate in a LAN, or does it just dial up the Net and browse the web? Without bashing CE or Windows NT Embedded 4.0, lets explore the possibilities. CE supports quite a few more processors than Windows NT Embedded 4.0. They share x86 compatibility, but thats about all. CE can do MIPS, ARM, and PowerPC to name a few. Windows NT Embed
