If you ever checked out TinyOS (for embedded system), you will like their idea a lot. The main premise about TinyOS is to wrap a thin layer of necessary (by "ne

If you ever checked out TinyOS (for embedded system), you will like their idea a lot. The main premise about TinyOS is to wrap a thin layer of necessary (by "necessary" it means, for example, if you only used TCP/IP in the app, it won't pack UDP support into) OS component along with your application and write the generated binary to the ROM directly.