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Contiki is a small, open source free operating system. It was developed to be used in 8-bit computers and embedded systems. It has a Graphical User Interface and the full installation needs about 30 kilobytes of RAM.[source?]
The name Contiki comes from Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft.
The basic kernel and most of the core functions were developed by Adam Dunkels at the Networked Embedded Systems group at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.
Features
[change | change source]A full installation of Contiki includes the following features:
- Multitasking kernel
- Optional per-application pre-emptive multithreading
- Protothreads
- TCP/IP networking
- Windowing system and GUI
- Networked remote display using Virtual Network Computing
- A web browser (claimed to be the world's smallest)
- Personal web server
- Simple telnet client
- Screensaver
More applications planned include:
- an email program
- an Internet Relay Chat client
Ports
[change | change source]The Contiki operating system has been or is being ported to the following systems:
- Computers:
- Apple II family*
- Atari 8-bit*
- Atari ST
- Atari Portfolio
- Casio Pocketview
- Commodore PET*
- Commodore VIC 20*
- Commodore 64*
- Commodore 128*
- GP32
- PC-6001
- Sharp Wizard
- x86-based Unix-like systems, on top of GTK+ as well as directly using the X Window System[1]
* cc65 based development
- Video game consoles:
- Handheld game consoles:
- Microcontrollers:
Related pages
[change | change source] Media related to Contiki at Wikimedia Commons
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Running Contiki under Windows". Archived from the original on 2006-08-10. Retrieved 2007-07-13.