The resolution of the touch screen is 640x240 pixel and corresponds to the half-VGA resolution. The operating system is not sold separately and always tied to the device unit delivered by the original equipment manufactures. One of the first devices for Windows CE was HP 300 LX and available at the market on 16th November 1996. Windows CE 1.0 has been presented at the COMDEX, Las Vegas in November 1996.
The minimum requirements are stated as 4 MB ROM and 2 MB RAM. The 32-bit operating system has a limit of up to 32 processes with up to 32 MB virtual memory for each process. At the beginning, Handheld PCs and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are supported with the processor architectures as MIPS 3000/4000, SuperH of Hitachi and Intel x86. The application programming interface (API) contains a subset of the Win32 API used for Windows on personal computers. The graphical user interface and usability has similarities with Windows 95 and has been designed especially for embedded devices.
Windows CE In 1995, Microsoft started the development of the new operating system called Windows CE under the code name Pegasus.
