Smallfoot was the name of both a rapid application development toolkit and an embedded operating system released by Caldera Systems, Caldera International and The SCO Group in UnixWare and Linux forms. Intended for embedded settings such as point of sale terminals and video gaming, the toolkit generated customised, stripped down systems with a small footprint, hence Smallfoot embedded UNIX and Smallfoot embedded Linux. It was first proposed in 2001, a prototype was built on Linux, and development moved to a Unix base in May 2003 because of the disputes SCO was in over Linux. The product was announced in June 2004 and listed in July 2004 at about 35,000 dollars with 500 deployment licences, but none were sold and it was discontinued; an outgrowth of it was later used by the Budgens supermarket chain for Linux point of sale systems.
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Source Caldera Smallfoot (Wikipedia)
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1. Caldera Smallfoot (Wikipedia)
History
The product itself was announced in June 2004
History, discontinued
None were ever sold and eventually the product was discontinued.
In Group: Embedded and Real-Time Operating Systems, Lead
Created for use in embedded environments such as point of sale systems and video gaming
In Field: Embedded Systems, Lead, embedded field
an embedded operating system designed and released by Caldera Systems/Caldera International/The SCO Group in both UnixWare and Linux formats
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