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Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

Subject: Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS
From: "Adam Dunkels" <adam@dunkels.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:14:05 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:35:41 +0100, Michael J. Schï¿½lke wrote:
>> Using REUs or other expansions was never considered an option :-)
> 
> Not even for some goodies on machines where they are available? They 
> could be handy, say, as a page cache for the web browser, or to store 
> and decompress images.

Yes, there are such plans :-) A caching module which makes use of
external memory and any disk drives when the memory runs out would
not be very hard to do, and definately have many benefits. There are
no problems in making it cross-platform either.

/adam
-- 
Adam Dunkels - http://dunkels.com/adam/

References:
- The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS
  - From: "Adam Dunkels" <adam@dunkels.net>
- Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS
  - From: J. Robertson <jkr7@juno.com>
- Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS
  - From: "Adam Dunkels" <adam@dunkels.net>
- Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS
  - From: Michael J. Sch�lke <mjschuelke@hotmail.com>

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