Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Adam Dunkels wrote:
|Hello c.s.cbm, c.s.atari.8bit, and c.s.apple2!
|
|I am extremely proud to present version 1.0 of the cross-platform,
|open-source, Internet-enabled Contiki operating system and desktop
|environment.

hm

|Contiki was originally intended for the the (unexpanded) Commodore 64,
|but also runs on the VIC-20, CBM PET, Plus/4, Atari 8-bit and the
|Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

Runs, or just barely manages to run?

|Ports to the 8-bit Apple ][, Atari Jaguar, and a bunch of other
|platforms are under development.

If your program runs equally well on all those other platforms,
why even bother 'porting' it to the Apple, Atari, and you name it,
as it probably already runs magically perfectly on every platform
imaginable?

|This first version of Contiki contains
the following:
|
|* Multitasking kernel.

And *here* you were saying it ran on a C-64 or Vic 20.  But now you are
suggesting a ROM replacement.

|* Windowing system with themeable GUI toolkit.

Well, it must be nice to offer Windows enthusiasts an alternative to
their damnably bad OS.