The ettiquete of Windows 98 on an HP Oscilloscope

[J.C. Wren]

    HP/Agilent did have a scope that ran full Win98 from HD.  It kinda 
pissed off the sales guy when I put our own network card in (something 
like a $750 option from HP).  I think he was also annoyed when I started 
playing FreeCell on the scope.

    --jc

Vassilis Prevelakis wrote:

>Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Presumably such machines boot from hard disk too? (I've never seen any
>>flavour of Windows boot from ROM).
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>Actually HP produced a version of windows 3.1 that was in ROM
>They also produced a DOS system that was in ROM and a Unix
>system (HP-UX 5.0) that was in ROM (not just the kernel, but 
>applications like csh and vi were in ROM as well).
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>Anyway, today you can get systems that boot from CDROM and run
>from a RAMDISK. I have seen Windows 98 (or ME) running in this
>mode (really useful when booting off the network) so its not
>that hard. 
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>Finally windows CE is designed to be in ROM and you have a number
>of implementations that use WinCE for its GUI.
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>**vp
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