Originally posted by gonk:
.... WindowsCE is one of the few OS's around for a device like this. Linux would also have been an alternative (one of the few, possibly the only other) ....
Or QNX or VxWorks or even embedded NT .....
Actually there are a ton of alternatives for embedded stuff, esp. if you stick to real standards (mp3, etc.) rather than 'MicroStandards', but WinCE might have looked good to a WinCentric engineer.
Charlie