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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.

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In the pantheon of operating systems, Windows XP and Windows 7 often steal the spotlight. But hidden in the background—powering everything from industrial robots and GPS navigators to medical infusion pumps and early touchscreen cash registers—was a lean, mean, real-time kernel: . wince 6.0