Is that why there are things like embedded XP? Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams Bob Ammerman wrote: > The 'right' way this is done today is to use a real-time kernel that runs on > the physical hardware and supports WinNT/2000/XP on top of it. It turns out > that the WinNT family is based on a Hardware Abstraction Layer, which can be > supplied by the underlying real-time kernel. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics