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Posted by pudge on Thursday June 03, 2004 @03:52AM from the just-because dept.

indyV writes "Most of you probably remember the Contiki OS which previously have been used to Internet-enable both the Commodore 64 and the 8-bit Atari. This video shows the brand new Apple II Contiki port in action, booting up on an Apple IIe and surfing to www.apple2.org. The network connection was made with a specially crafted Ethernet adapter."

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It's projects like these... (Score:5, Insightful)

by innerlimit ( 593217 ) writes: on Thursday June 03, 2004 @08:58AM (#9324457)

that reminds us of wat can be done with relatively low-spec systems, and that SO MUCH MORE could be done with current processing power.

but of course, hardware being so diverse as it is, programming for 1 platform just isn't feasable any longer

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