Contiki, a modern multitasking OS/GUI/web browser which runs on an unmodified Commodore 64 (and doesn't need any helper software on another machine either). And they've ported it to a number of other 8-bit platforms, such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Apple ][ and the VIC-20. (Wait a minute, VIC-20???)
(via Slashdot)
The author has some other interesting projects as well, like Miniweb: http://dunkels.com/adam/miniweb/ - allegedly a working web server and TCP/IP stack in 30 bytes of RAM! Writing small, highly efficient programs is a lost art and it good to see it carried on. I do wonder, however, how the web browser in Contiki works when most web pages out there have more than 64k of data just in the text.
The author has some other interesting projects as well, like Miniweb: http://dunkels.com/adam/miniweb/ - allegedly a working web server and TCP/IP stack in 30 bytes of RAM! Writing small, highly efficient programs is a lost art and it good to see it carried on. I do wonder, however, how the web browser in Contiki works when most web pages out there have more than 64k of data just in the text.