moepsenstreusel t1_j8dx6y4 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 4:25 PM

Reply to comment by KingdomOfBullshit in Open-Source, RISC-V Laptop Will Be Easy to Make and Upgrade by Avieshek

Yeah, but Windows CE wasn't in any meaningful sense Windows.

It was one of the generation of puny, souped-up embedded OSes (Symbian, BlackBerry) that slimmed-down, desktop-class OSes iOS and Android killed.

KingdomOfBullshit t1_j8dy4eu wrote on February 13, 2023 at 4:31 PM

Honestly though, Windows CE was the best of these for me. It had a proper GUI, networking support, compatibility with PowerPoint/Word/Excel, awesome battery life, good support for printing and external displays and a decent SDK. It lacked win32 support but it checked all the other boxes for me. Couldn't say that about any palm pilot I had.

Edit: forgot to mention that, of course I agree it was a different beast than windows