Re: [NTLK] small footprint contiki os

From: Kris Herlaar (k.herlaar_at_chello.nl)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 17:54:41 PST


Dear newters ;)

What about Contiki atop NOS you ask... theoretically it should be
possible to do this, since there is an apple 2 emulator for newton.
Unfortunately i haven't been able to try the emulator myself.

I'm gonna try to find a link for you all

Kind regards,

Kris

On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 10:13 PM, andrew peleikis wrote:

> 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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