Thursday
Room 2
10:20 - 11:20
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
Neotron - why write a brand new ‘DOS’ for Arm in Rust?
Take a walk through history to answer the question “Just what is an Operating System?”, via “But what even is a computer?” before we come to the ultimate question - why would someone make a brand new OS modelled after CP/M and early MS-DOS, and run it on a $1 microcontroller? And what’s Rust got to do with it?
UX
Embedded
Platform
Software Design
Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant
After almost 20 years in product design and development consulting, Jonathan now provides Rust language training and support at Ferrous Systems. His back story covers satellite modems, Bluetooth hands-free kits, wildlife cameras in Antarctica and LF/UHF proximity warning systems.