[NTLK] small footprint contiki os

From: andrew peleikis (sinewaiv_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 13:13:14 PST


Copied directly from today's slashdot:
The Contiki Desktop OS for C64, NES, 8-bit Atari,
Posted by Hemos on Monday March 10, @08:04AM
from the making-the-jump dept.
Adam Dunkels writes "This is for those of you who think that a
text-based operating system that fits compressed on a 1.44Mb floppy
counts as 'tiny': the brand new Contiki operating system and desktop
environment for the Commodore 64, with ports to a bunch of other
platforms such as the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, the VIC-20,
8-bit Ataris, Atari Jaguar, the Tandy CoCo, and the Apple ][ under
development. The Contiki system includes the following: a multi-tasking
kernel , a windowing system and themeable GUI toolkit , a screen saver
, a TCP/IP stack , a personal web server , and a web browser . The
Contiki web browser, which is likely to be the world's smallest browser
given its extremely small memory footprint, is the world's first true
web browser for an 8-bit system and probably makes the 21 years old
Commodore 64 the oldest system ever to run a real web browser! All of
the above programs are contained in a single, fully self-contained, 42
kilobytes large binary. The entire Contiki system with all programs
running simultaneously is comfortable in 64 kilobytes of memory. The
name 'Contiki' is derived from Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft
which was able to sail across the Pacific Ocean despite being built
using prehistoric techniques, something previously thought impossible.
There are also screenshots and a FAQ avaliable."

screenshots are here: http://dunkels.com/adam/contiki/ss.html

this seems so very cool! what about contiki running on top of newtonos?

andrew

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