Hi Charles, On 9 Feb 2005 at 17:18, Charles Pond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke, thus:
> In that sense, I'm not a big Windows fan. The sense of PDH's ads is that > the machines are Windows-ce based for users with the intrinsic benefits. If Agreed, and yes. > the machines do not focus on the user accessing Windows-ce, then the > actual O/S is purely academic to the user? Yes? Fundamentally, yes. It's my opinion that Windows CE is entirely the wrong choice for this sort of platform, introducing more difficulties and issues than it actually appears to provide benefits, and this update is one example of how. Even so, PulseData would argue that Windows CE's core functionality for HPC (HandHeld PC form factor) is already established and that this functionality is all relevant to the advancement of the product which only recently displayed any notion of rivalry to the nearest commercial PDA, inclusive of the PackMate whose functionality matches such a PDA. Examples of supported technologies can be found in your BrailleNote's manual. At the time they made this choice, I might have been inclined to agree, for other operating systems were not advanced enough to support embedded applications at the time that Windows CE was generally an embedded system and a good, minimal platform with no obvious need for replacement. Now, however, alternative operating systems exist which perform better and serve the purposes required of Windows CE now on modern standard hardware, usually at lower or nonexistant cost. The Unix-like operating systems, in particular, are in my view relevant to the BrailleNote and similar products, because they provide text mode interfaces to their inner workings and to many out-of-the-tarball applications. Equally, much general support for specific hardware is provided uniformly by a single driver and/or utility repository, making the nightmare of licensed hardware support on the BrailleNote a non-issue. To summarise: you're right. windows CE is not in your immediate view. I believe it's wrong to use it - it's inherently graphical, the BrailleNote is inherently textual. But any choice of operating system is utterly irrelevant to the end-user experience as far as the BrailleNote is concerned. Cheers, Sabahattin -- If an email tells you to forward it to all your friends, please temporarily forget that I am your friend. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Skype: SabahattinGucukoglu (requires authorisation, add me to your list first) SpeakFreely: sabahattin-gucukoglu.com (Please use CELP compression if your processor allows)
