Miray Software announces that the real-time operating system µnOS is available for XScale processors as from now. The porting has been accomplished in collaboration with Technische Universität München (TU). This is an important step for Miray Software on the way to establish µnOS in the field of mobile and power saving embedded systems.
The Operating System µnOS for XScale PDAs
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This operating system actually look quite well. I especially like that they did what BeOS did long time ago and shortened the menu bar.
It also seems to run on quite a few CPUs… now I only ask myself, what GFX drivers etc etc do they support. I’ve never even heard of this before.
Looks promising and I love it. Look forward to that demo downloadable…
http://www.miray.de/public/screenshots/system1024full.png
Looks a little like early BeOS, coupled with the pizzazz of OS/2:
http://www.kirilla.com/tmp/dr8.png
http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/os221/
This OS has now entered an area where it is in direct competition with RISC OS (5), which is developed by Castle, and also mainly aimed at the embedded market and PDA use. See http://www.iyonix.com/32bit/overview.shtml However, RISC OS is originally designed for the ARM/XScale architecture and does not yet run natively (ie. without emulation) on any other type of processor. Still, one might argue since ARM and XScale chips are so popular in the PDA/embedded market this should not (yet) pose any shortcoming. Also, the embedded market is huge, so one could say there should be enough room for both these OS’s to flourish there.
since when has risc os been aimed at pda use?
How do you pronounce – “µn”? From the site, it looks like the ‘mu’ sign… So – “mun”???
I personally think you pronounce µnOS mun-os …
I think it should be pronounced “micron OS”
Try it out yourself:
http://www.miray.de/download/demodisk.html
Believe that the name is rather MyOS. As far as I’ve heard in my native language that ehhrr symbol is called My… and I believe we pronounce it the greek way. Can Eugenia shed any light on this issue?
I downloaded the demo disk. I gotta admit they packed quite a bit into a 1.44MB disk image.