Evidently tired of smooth running graphics, lightning fast processing and bags and bags of available memory, programmer Dmitry Grinberg decided to go back to computing basics. And then some. As Linux was developed on a 32-bit machine with 1MB of RAM, this has always been considered the minimum system requirements to run the open source OS. Dmitry, however, put this theory to test, building a barebones set-up with just an 8-bit RISC microcontroller at its heart. Running at a somewhat sedentary 6.5KHz, with only 16KB of SRAM and 128KB of flash storage, these are specs that make most phones look like [...]

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According to AppleInsider resources the new coming iPhone OS 4.0 will integrate the functionality of multi-tasking which will make this possible to run multiple third party applications on iPhone and also allows users to switch between those concurrent running apps. This iPhone OS 4.0 multi-tasking concept is pretty much similar to Mac Exposé functionality. A little bit about Mac Exposé feature which actually provides a view of all running application windows at the same place and also allows users to quickly open any specific application window just with a single click without switching [...]

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