Re: What exactly does "Embedded" means?

On Tue, Jun 12 '01 at 07:01, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Actually, you are making an artificial distinction with the iPAQ: since
> it supports PCMCIA and CF (and 2 slots, to boot) , we have the very large
> range of such devices and configurations to support; many wireless cards,
> disk drives, flash, ethernet, serial, etc.
Well in this case, my line was not stright enough. What I ment was, that
for an embedded system, the base system consists of just a small number
of models (in the ipaq case 2: 36xx and 31xx) and for an intel based
desktop this is definetely not true.

Everything that is not part of the base system (everything you dont need
for the base functionality, e.g. the stuff you add using the expandion
slot) does not unmake the iPaq an embedded system.

    Goetz.