Re: Linux Port to limited environment (was: RE: tlug: FW: Windows 95)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Michael Chiu wrote:

> > I don't think that the applications that people use these little things
> > for really require a great deal of computing power, though... fortunately,
> > WinCE (wince?  What marketing idiot came up with this name??) is stable,
> > and the little guy doesn't crash :)
> 
> 
> That's gotta be it!!! in order to make them crash-proof, you have to
> have a lot of computing power!!! :D  Hmm... so instead of just Wintel,
> it's now WinHit, WinNEC, WinPhil, and WinCas I guess... :D

No, I said that CE is stable, but the stuff that I/we run on it *doesn't*
require a lot of computing power.

PS, AFAIK there's only 2 different chips being used, one (used by NEC and
others) is the MIPS R4000, and I forget what the other is.

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