XPost: alt.games.video.sega-dreamcast   
   From: sheath@gamepilgrimage.com   
      
   Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:   
      
   > > I can't excuse that, but I think I know the explanation. The Dreamcast was   
   > on the market at the same time as the first iteration of the Pocket PC,   
   > which was the beginning of Intel's monopoly. By adding instructions to the   
   > ARM chipset and making it incompatible with chips from other companies,   
   > Intel was able to bully Microsoft into optimizing Windows CE for Compaq's   
   > iPaq device. Casio put up a good fight for their favored MIPS chip, but   
   > eventually they gave in and withdrew from the market. And once HP was   
   > bought out, the SH series processors had no advocate.   
   >   
   > What's this have to do with the Dreamcast? The support for the Dreamcast's   
   > SH-3 processor suffered as a result of all this inside baseball. On paper   
   > Windows CE was supposed to let you write once and then compile equally for   
   > any compatible processor, but in practice you ended up with a performance   
   > hit for anything that wasn't x86 or ARM. Sega's own API shouldn't have run   
   > circles around Windows CE from a strictly mathematical perspective.   
   >   
   > Anyway. All water under the bridge at this point.   
   >   
      
   It actually sounds about par for the course for what Intel just got   
   busted for.  I wasn't into watching industry news at the time because I   
   didn't care for paying subscriptions.  I was just sitting on the other   
   end wondering why companies were ruining their own IP on their own   
   Dreamcast ports.   Most of which happened to use WinCE at the same time.   
      
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