PowerBasic Under WinPE

Originally posted by Robert M Green:
WinPE sounds like Recovery Console on a bootable CD. Or am I
missing something here?

Bob Green

All,

WinPE is the preinstallation Environment. It is similar in functionality to the recovery console
but has some significant functionality above the standard recovery console. It is sort of a superset
of the recovery console. Just didn't know if PowerBasic had been tested against it.

WinPE sounds like Recovery Console on a bootable CD. Or am I
missing something here?

Bob Green


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[Michael Torrie]

Forgive me, but Microsoft's naming strategies really make me laugh sometimes. I mean WinCE? (That's what many users would do if made to use a PocketPC over a Palm) WinPE? Sounds kind of like "wimpee."

However I'd say it's about time to have a real text-mode 32-bit console OS. Should have happened years ago. Actually OS/2 without the Workplace Shell multitasked text-mode apps rather well. You could run multiple DOS sessions and NT- and OS/2 console apps. Probably we wouldn't have seen Windows 3.1 or Windows 9x had this happened to MSDOS back in the 386 days. The GUI stuff would have been full 32-bit from the beginning.

Maybe MS will finally divorce the gui from the OS core and build a real server platform that runs the GUI only when needed, as a user process, just as it always should have been. Or perhaps it would be feasible to use in an embedded environment where there is no user interface.

Then if it just had a good posix layer (give us fork), we could port X11 to it and then Gnome or KDE and be just like *nix...

Off hand, I'd say PB/CC should already be able to target this "new" platform.

Michael

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[This message has been edited by Michael Torrie (edited September 03, 2002).]

[Tom Hanlin]

Not shipping yet, by the looks of it, but we'll keep an eye on it.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

Originally posted by Tom Hanlin:
Windows ME? No problem.
Windows CE? Can't be done.
Windows PE? Not listed on Microsoft's web site. Typo?

No, Not a misprint. Check out the following URL for more info on the Windows PE environment. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/p.../sam/winPe.asp
Sorry about the multiple posts. Wasn't sure where to put this.

[Tom Hanlin]

Windows ME? No problem.
Windows CE? Can't be done.
Windows PE? Not listed on Microsoft's web site. Typo?

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

Has anyone attempted to write an application under Microsoft's WinPE environment with PowerBasic?