LabVIEW PDA and WinCE

Greetings all,
My latest stab at the bleeding edge of LabVIEW capabilities has brought me to yet another question for which I haven't found an answer... Does the PDA module take advantage of the fact that Win CE is a deterministic OS or are thread prioritization and interrupt servicing isolated by the RTE from the OS? My hunch is that LV PDA doesn't make use of the deterministic capabilities of CE, but I really hope I'm wrong.
Chris
Chris
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Thanks for the input, JLC.
I probably should be a little clearer... I was concerned that the thread prioritization in PDA on CE worked like it does when running standard LV on XP (for example). It is my understanding that the prioritizing is only applicable within the RTE. Additionally, I don't believe there is any way under XP to set the interrupt for a DAQ card to a higher priority than the mouse, for example, without extensively reconfiguring the system after disabling ACPI.
Upon further contemplation, however, it would seem that if WinCE is guaranteed to service an interrupt within 5ms, the pressure is on me to write code in the PDA module that can deal with the data within the required system response time minus the 5ms used to acknowledge the interrupt.
Please let me know if I am not interpreting something correctly.
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