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On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:22:53 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> However both run a Linux kernel. I doubt that the Windows kernel is
>> what's running on both the Windows platform and Windows Mobile
>> platforms.
>
> It's hard to say. I would be very surprised if a majority of the OS code
> wasn't in Windows. Of course I'm sure a bunch of it gets chopped, but I
> would guess (uninformed, mind you) that the WinPhone OS is to normal
> Windows like BusyBox is to Ubuntu. Lots chopped out and left hanging,
> but enough there to make porting stuff like .NET and silverlight and all
> that much easier than if they started over.
Busybox is more to bash than to Ubuntu. It's a shell, not a kernel.
I'm fairly certain that the Windows kernel code is not platform-
independent. Microsoft stopped doing that back when they dropped support
for RISC-based Windows to the best of my knowledge.
Jim
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