Re: contiki and an assembler

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Alistair J Ross" <mail@ataliross.co.uk> wrote in message
pan.2004.09.14.22.59.15.132977@ataliross.co.uk">news:pan.2004.09.14.22.59.15.132977@ataliross.co.uk...
> Hi,
>
>   Feeling lazy so this is 2 questions in 1 post:
...
> 2) Has anyone seen this Contiki thing?
> [http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/]. It looks cool - a proper OS for
> memory limited machines. It does a lot for not a lot, and I'd love to get
> it working on an Apple II or maybe my C64. Has anyone actually done this
> with their machine(s), and how did you get it happening?
>
> Regards,
>
> Alistair Ross

Hi Alistair,

The Contiki issue has been discussed a couple of times.  Currently, there is
a working port that can surf the Internet using a prototype Ethernet card.
Here are the relevant Google links:

http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20040529020606.09638.00000111%40mb-m11.aol.com

Slighter older discussion of that particular project, but with more detail:
http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=LLU0c.87478%24Qg7.81791%40news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com&rnum=8

Contiki update:
http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20040329213831.19539.00000260%40mb-m20.aol.com

Cheers
Tim