Engineers at Sun Microsystems and Dallas Semiconductor have
developed TINI (Tiny InterNet Interface). The three-chip set aims
to make it easy and inexpensive to develop applications in Java
that control and monitor embedded systems in factory equipment and
home electronics. Born of Dallas's need for efficiency with its
silicon process equipment, TINI includes chips for a
microcontroller, a ROM, and a network controller, and it sports an
OS capable of running multiple Java applications. Work is under way
at Sun and Dallas to make TINI fully support JINI technology.
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