RE: MISC personal computers

["Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Fox wrote:
>At the Forth day Michael Montvelishsky did a presentatioin about the
>profile of the iTV embedded software.  From what I have seen it is about
>an order of magnitude smaller than the next smallest product with 
>similar features and it can run with substantially less total memory.
>A 512k flash file system holds 100k bytes of compressed object code
>and application files.  The system includes a whole list of network
>protocols, flash files, dynamic memory management with garbage collection,
>fast multitasking, GUI, browser, email, forth compiler, support for
>forth web pages.  When looking at the size of each module it is obvious
>which modules were written in machine Forth and which modules were
>written in high level ANS Forth.  The present system size of about 100k
>words could be signifigantly reduced if it were all in machine Forth.
>Most of the modules written in machine Forth take a couple of K words.

Has any taken a look at the WebPad by Cyrix
http://www.cyrix.com/html/emerging/index.htm

This seems to me to be an area for MISC and iTV.  It's a sealed box
providing web access.  Most of the Internet apps, FTP, mail, etc.
that iTV has already done would be applicable in this environment
as well.