Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

Marko M�kel� <Marko.Makela@HUT.FI> wrote in message news:<7lllzlykyt.fsf@siphon.tcs.hut.fi>...
> >>>>> "Martijn" == Martijn van Buul <pienjo@c64.org> writes:
> 
> Martijn> Such a shame that it's written in ANSI-C, and not K&R C,
> Martijn> otherwise I would've been running it on a PDP11..
> 
> Have you tried ansi2knr?  Has anybody tried porting Contiki with bcc
> (Bruce Evans' C Compiler) to 8086-based platforms?  It's a K&R
> compiler whose --ansi option is based on ansi2knr, I think.
> 
>         Marko

(I can send you ansi2knr - e-mail me.)

For 8086 couldn't you just use Turbo C++ (for DOS anyway)?  It has
NICE ways of getting down-and-dirty with the hardware: geninterrupt(),
inportb(), outportb(), _AX, _BX, _CX, _DX, _CS, _DS, _FLAGS, _AH, _AL,
etc.  And none of that requires an OS (hope you have TASM handy) - I
cross-compiled some test code to CP/M-86!

-uso.