Yes, I'm quite aware of QNX and have great respect for it and what it can do. It's also NOT CHEAP... both to get started and on an ongoing manufacturing basis. It's fantastic in its modularity and it's Real-Time and TCP/IP capabilities, yet I still feel it's overkill for many simple "messaging" applications which need little more than REBOL and a IP (sometimes not even TCP) stack. R. At 12:59 PM 10/27/99 +0000, you wrote: > >> 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 > > >
