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Because I have not tested all electronic circuits mentioned on this pages, I cannot attest to their accuracy; therefore, I do not provide a warranty of any kind and cannot be held responsible in any manner.
OS
Acorn micro-kernel for ATMega
18. September 2010 - 15:39 — adminAcorn micro-kernel is a simple open source multitasking OS for 8 bit ATMega CPU, written in Assembler. It provides all the basic synchronization primitives.
Breadboard CP/M
11. April 2010 - 13:17 — adminA simple CP/M system fits in breadboard nowadays. Look at Grant's Work-in-progress version.
Photo: Grant Searle
FLIRT - Friendly Little Interrupt Tasker
11. April 2010 - 12:04 — adminAn attempt to simulate preemptive multithreading on 8bit MCUs.
Light reading for a weekend
27. March 2010 - 11:33 — adminThe time kills me nowadays, so here are links to interesting projects, at least. Enjoy.
Vintage OS: One Man Unix
14. March 2010 - 14:45 — adminA spirit of an ancient time: Single-user single-task Unix-like OS from 80's for a 6809 MCU... and revitalized later for a 68000 MCU.
Pyxis - an Arduino OS
3. February 2010 - 15:23 — adminThe thing I simply can't omit: Pyxis OS for an Arduino.
FemtoOS for AVRs
2. December 2008 - 15:28 — adminThe Femto OS is a very concise portable preemptive operating system (RTOS) for embedded devices with minimal ram and flash, say 2KB .. 16KB flash and 128 .. 1024 bytes ram.
Real-time OS (RTOS) for Microchip PICs
10. August 2008 - 12:45 — adminA basic real time operating system (let’s call it BRTOS) for PIC microprocessors, written in PROTON PICBASIC environment.
