Wince 6.0 ((new)) -

Today, the embedded world runs on Linux and FreeRTOS. But if you ever power up an old Zune HD (which ran CE 6.0), a Sega Dreamcast (Windows CE optional disc), or a supermarket self-checkout from 2010, take a moment. Beneath that slow, resistive touchscreen is a tiny, brilliant kernel that never missed a single interrupt. Have a vintage WinCE 6.0 device collecting dust? Let us know in the comments.

Where a desktop OS might take 30 seconds to boot, WinCE 6.0 could boot in under a second. Where XP needed 512MB of RAM to breathe, CE 6.0 ran comfortably in 32MB. The headline feature of CE 6.0 was a radical shift in memory management. Its predecessor, CE 5.0, was famously limited to 32 concurrent processes . That sounds absurd today, but embedded devices were simpler then. wince 6.0

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