From owner-freebsd-small Tue Feb 23 10:12:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70FF1108C for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:12:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.110]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA28EC; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:12:48 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon.ninth-circle.org [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA89939; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:12:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36D2F05D.96DBAB19@unlimited.net> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:12:54 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: John Oram Subject: RE: Embedded MS-Windows NT Cc: "freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Feb-99 John Oram wrote: > FYI > > (3) Microsoft begins embedded NT beta > > Microsoft today rolled out the first beta release of its > Windows NT Embedded 4.0 operating system to more than 350 > testing sites and expanded the beta testing program. As reported > earlier, Windows NT Embedded 4.0 is for "embedded" settings such > as point-of-sale devices, office and industrial automation, and > even as the underlying software for networking equipment. Today's > release follows November's alpha release. Yeah, when I discussed this with a friend working in the embedded sector he had to laugh since the embedded version apparantly is 12 MB whereas that's an overkill for that market. They were used to use embedded OS's of less than 1 or 2 MB. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven http://www.freebsdzine.org> asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea doesn not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message