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.
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.
Vista is an example of small memory footprint, right
Contiki is really nice btw
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
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/
I agree. Maybe he should be put in charge of Microsoft’s MinWin project….
Thanks again Adam for your great web server Contiki v2.
Well deserved congrats
Have Fun Shane