Contiki Ported To x86 243
lt writes "The ultra-small Contiki OS has now been ported to the x86. This should give those of you who have an old x86 PC that is too small to run even the smallest of Linux variants, a chance to browse the web, set up a web server, and doing other essential stuff. If you're curious to see how it looks, there is a live VNC demo running."
VNC (Score:5, Interesting)
On another note, for those who thought VNC over 100BaseT was slow, it's even slower when running at 3KiB/s
Neat, now let's talk practical. (Score:4, Interesting)
Maybe a Contiki based PDA? Contiki based email stations? Seems you could make such things dirt cheap using this as the OS.
Hack gratia hacking (Score:3, Interesting)
Hmm, and with a StarLAN to 10baseT router, I could get the resulting beastie on the net. Hmm....
Am I the only one (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Pushing the limits of computing (Score:4, Interesting)
They say with faster CPUs and more memory will take care of that. Therefore, they can just keep piling on the crap code without thinking of resource constraints, i.e. - memory, cpu power. How long can this really last?
I commend the people who have worked on this OS. Some may see it as useless, I see it as hope that there will be better OSes built in the future, once the physical limits of the modern computer are reached.
Implement this in a wristwatch/ring anyone? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I just hope ... (Score:2, Interesting)
This is just vague memory thou....
What i do know is that the tiki 100 was popular in norwegian schools in the 80s....
1541? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:New headline for article (Score:4, Interesting)
Having a 14 MHz box survive a Slashdotting is a _real_ good ad for the OS it's running.
Re:Pre-emptive multitasking? (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't see how you can reasonably do real-time computing without preemption. It would mean timeslicing each process by hand, which (especially for large tasks or tasks that scale to large datasets) is nearly impossible to get right. RiscOS, I believe, moved to a preemptive model later in its life (correct me if I'm wrong) for precisely this reason.
Not quite: (Score:3, Interesting)