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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-Pad Slate, Everyone's a WiiN-Er

Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone wit...

Data General's attempt to leapfrog into the 32-bit world was the subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, detailing a skunkworks project codenamed Eagle that developed a backwards-compatible architecture, while another team hit the second-system effect wall with Fountainhead as a more direct technical assault on DEC VAX. Much of their work involved using Data General server kit to back partner frontends, such as a 1996 partnership that used AViiON hardware and CLARiiON disks as the backend for separately-developed PACS teleradiology workstations, but at least some of the Division's operations sold customized DataGenies to hospitals and clinics where they were used for basic nursing tasks like vital signs and point-of-care testing. Other than that, however, both the 8xx and 403GC failed to achieve a design win with any major Windows CE vendor, most likely due to the other better supported options, and for years it was widely believed there were no production PowerPC WinCE devices ever sold to consumers — the only other mention I've seen was some sort of modular controller for a security system, though it doesn't look like that was released.

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