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Run Win98 From 16MB Flash Disk

Posted by timothy on from the reboot-faster dept.

ksheff writes "Embedded Ware Technologies has come up with a product to run Win98 applications from a 16M Flash disk. This could be useful for companies that would like to use an existing Win9x application in an embedded system."

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  1. Re:Win98? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Coding those widgets in assembler is pretty time consuming.

    As for crashing, they'd probably have a custom GPF handler that forced a hard reset. You'd never see the BSOD and the longest downtime you'd have would be 6 seconds.

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    I have been pwned because my /. password was too easy to guess.
  2. Reliability? by stu_coates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Windows 98 in an embedded system?

    I always thought that embedded systems were about rock solid reliability - and I don't think that anyone (even Microsoft) would admit that Win98 qualifies.

    1. Re:Reliability? by StarBar · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well, I think you are thinking about a real-time system. An embedded system is anything that is special purpose as opposed to general purpose. Also it might lack normal user interfaces that we are used to, like keyboard and monitor. If I used Win-98 for an embedded system I would make sure that the system would be reset regularily, once an hour or so, by letting a timer power cycle the CPU board. So there I agree with you that Win-98 might limit what you want to do with it. ;-)