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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1100)	2/24/1999 2:54:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 2615

Speaking of toy operating systems ... Lego Hackers Go Deeper Wired by Chris Oakes 3:00 a.m. 23.Feb.99.PST Since Lego building blocks became programmable in September, hackers have gravitated to the kids' toy, breathing carbon life -- and their programming dreams -- into moving, crawling, light-sensing Lego robots. No wonder then that the Lego world is abuzz with LegOS, a new open-source operating system for the Lego robots. "What [LegOS] is doing is exposing the full power of the processor to hackers," said Fred Martin, a research scientist at MIT's Media Lab. ... LegOS' mission, according to Noga, is "to unleash the RCX's full potential by providing a lightweight, comprehensive native mode kernel and standard library." By replacing the Lego "firmware" that comes with Mindstorms, programmers are able to express themselves to the Lego brain in their language of choice, such as an assembly language speaking directly to the hardware or C++. wired.com