> This IS in our future (see www.aplio.com for just one example), and to > simply equate it to ancient DOS machines is missing the implications of this > picture. Not all interesting/useful "networking" or "messaging" apps > require 32-bit machines (and Windows and graphics and O/S's and OVERHEAD) to > work effectively. Heck, I've done TCP/IP in an 8-bit micro w/o ANY O/S! How > I'd love to have REBOL (or a compiled version of a rebol application) in > there too :) Can we have a REBOL for the good old C-64? Now Carl, wouldn't that be a nice challenge, ey? ;-) Embedded market? Look at QNX... IMHO they have one of the coolest, least resource-hungry OS out there today. It can boot me into a windowing system and fire up a graphical webbrowser with HTML 3.2 and Javascript support from a single 1.44MB PC HD disk. And its modular. I am pretty sure it can be stripped down to be runable in 256KB or 512KB of RAM when thats really needed, just as the older Amiga OS versions ;-) (which are monolithic instead of microkernel such as QNX). -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://helios.home.pages.de PGP: http://home.pages.de/~helios/autor/wie-erreichen.html
