PDA

[Guest]

Hi,
Can Windows XP Embedded run on PDAs, like PocketPCs? I can't seem to find
PDAs running with Windows XP Embedded online.

 

[jraven]

I can tell you from working with PDAs and Smartphones that you won't
find any running XPe based PDAs.
Would it be possible?
Maybe - you would have to build a version of XPe that ran on an ARM,
MIPS or SH3. Those are the processors used in Smart Devices and they
are just getting up to the memory/CPU umph needed to run XPe.
That is why MS choose to port down WinCe (the PDA OS).

Anyway - are you planning to build you own XPe or were you just hoping
for a PDA that was running XP?

 

[Andrew McGrath]

XPe only runs on X86 architecture.

Pocket PCs only have ARM chips and their OS is a variant of Windows CE
(called Windows Mobile).

WinCE will run on both X86 and ARM, however there are many differences in
the architecture compared to XP(e), some very minor, some much more
significant. While the GUI might look similar, what is underneath is often
quite different.

Andrew