Re: vindicating Vinge

From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 22:25:03 MST


> One of the biggest hurdles the UC researchers face is building a
> mechanism that can survive on extremely low power but is still capable
> of sensing, sorting and sending vast amounts of information. For that
> reason, they have designed a computer operating system called Tiny OS
> that can function on a mere 512 bytes of RAM - about the amount of
> processing power found in a toaster.

Does anyone know anything about Tiny OS? What can it possibly do in 512
bytes?

Emlyn



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