Microsoft Honors Contiki Author Adam Dunkels

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Apr 2008 20:17 UTC, submitted by bndl

Microsoft Research and EuroSys have awarded the 2008 Roger Needham prize to Contiki OS author Adam Dunkels for his open source Contiki OS, protothreads, and the uIP and lwIP embedded TCP/IP stacks. Dunkels is famous for writing code that runs in extremely small amounts of memory.

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Something good from MS

by fithisux (2.44) on Thu 10th Apr 2008 20:55 UTC

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Good move. The next move from MS is to buy SCO and open source Unixware :-)

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RE: Something good from MS

by kaiwai (3) on Fri 11th Apr 2008 05:00 UTC in reply to "Something good from MS"

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Good move. The next move from MS is to buy SCO and open source Unixware :-)

Why do that? Solaris already pretty much is compatible with UnixWare; just embrace Solaris and build something ontop of it - aka like Apple did with its UNIX core.

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Yeah...

by mmu_man (2.96) on Thu 10th Apr 2008 21:37 UTC

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Vista is an example of small memory footprint, right

Contiki is really nice btw

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by michaelengel (3.5) on Thu 10th Apr 2008 22:04 UTC

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Actually, it was EuroSys that awarded the price and Microsoft "just" sponsored it. That was definitely a nice evening in Glasgow last week :-).

Congrats, Adam!

Edited 2008-04-10 22:04 UTC

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A well-justified award...

by madcrow (2.4) on Fri 11th Apr 2008 00:03 UTC

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Anybody who can write an OS and IP stack good enough to turn a basically unmodified C64 into a fully functional web server deserves as many awrds as they can get.

Link to the C64 server, btw: http://www.c64web.com/

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RE: A well-justified award...

by sydbarrett74 (1) on Fri 11th Apr 2008 07:53 UTC in reply to "A well-justified award..."

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I agree. Maybe he should be put in charge of Microsoft's MinWin project....

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Contiki v2

by c64web (2) on Fri 11th Apr 2008 11:37 UTC

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Thanks again Adam for your great web server Contiki v2.

Well deserved congrats

Have Fun Shane

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