Special Report on Windows & Real-Time - Windows CE
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With Windows CE 2.0, Microsoft officialised the major role they want to play in the dedicated systems industry. Although one may argument that release 2.0 is not really suitable for hard real-time systems, Microsoft plans to add hard real-time features to Windows CE 3.0, availability foreseen in 1999. Real-Time Magazine decided to monitor closely Windows CE, not only because it has been and still is a hot topic on the relevant newsgroups, but - more important - because we feel that Microsoft, with release 3.0 of Windows CE, may come up with a solid alternative for many commercial RTOS available today.
Real-Time Magazine did issue a major edition on the subject:
| Our views about Windows CE | |
| Is Windows CE 2.0 a real threat to the RTOS World ? By Martin Timmerman, Chief-Editor of Real-Time Magazine, Bart Van Beneden Project Manager, Laurent Uhres, Software Engineer, Real-Time Consult. This article gives an overview of the capabilities of Windows CE 2.0 as a real-time operating system (RTOS). This article is part of an evaluation project for real-time operating systems. Paper published in Real-Time Magazine, 98/3 - p. 20-24. (Acrobat PDF, 308K - 5 pages) |
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