Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

["Adam Dunkels" <adam@dunkels.net>]

Hi!

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:37:43 +0000, desiv wrote:

> I'm looking at my Coleco Adam sitting underneath my Apple //e, and I'm
> thinking he might get even more jealous...
> 
> What are your thoughts on a Z80 port...  I've seen portable C compilers for
> the PC that compile Z80 code (not cc65 obviously, sdcc), and C should be
> fairly portable, but a Z80 isn't a 65xx chip...

A Z80 port of Contiki should definately be possible, given a good C
compiler. I don't know the current status of sdcc, but I have heard
that there have been problems with their Z80 target and the uIP TCP/IP
stack in the past. Those issues may very well have been resolved by
how, however.

Contiki already runs on other architectures than the 65xx family: x86,
68000, 6809 (I think).

Groepaz has been talking about a GameBoy version of Contiki, so there
are others who are interested in Z80 ports as well.

/adam
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