Austin Linux Group Meeting Minutes
Date: May 18, 2006
Location: Walnut Creek

7:30 presentation Cris Nystrom on NEWIO.

Internet Application System (separate from WEB)
Portable, available anywhere
easy data backup
easy to update
no viruses

Problems with existing Systems
applications are downloaded.
(not client / server )
limitations to programmers
remote desktop solutions
Web based.

Design Goals
Powerful enough
easy to use (consumer friendly)
easy to program for. Secure.

Parts of New I/O
application browser (Dreadnought)
Daemon
library (CAPI)

How it works.
user types URL
default port 32662
inetd handles multi tasking & status New I/O deamon.
New I/O starts program.
Program uses stdio.

Bounce. click to Begin.

Communication

via BiDi messages

INT32 msg size
INT32 msg #
Data INT32, Assci

Resources
alpha very.
security needed.
Port to Prio OS

API in flux.

License code in GPL
library is LGPL.