MSP430, with or without OS

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On 2008-09-09, Evgeny Ginzburg <Nad.Oby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I got the impression? that MSP430 have goo chances to be an MPU in
> future hardware design.
> I've recently found what open-source OS - COntiki (maybe more than one)
> available for this platform.
>  From paper [2] I understand that Contiki have event based kernel,
> sounds good for MPU job and possibility to update/download new programs
> during runtime (there is also possibility to replace the kernel to).
>
> The question: Is it possible or desirable to have a such "full" OS on MPU?
>
> P.S . I'm a nonprogrammer so _can_ speak absolutely nonsense.
>
> [1] http://www.sics.se/contiki/
> [2] http://www.sics.se/~adam/dunkels04contiki.pdf

Personally, I feel it would be best to use it without any
OS'es. A minimal bootloader could be nice, but I do
not see any resons for anything else. I believe that
running a OS will just make the code much more
complicated, without giving us any advantages.