Cinder Mobile OS Lets Users Send More Power To Slow Apps

alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "Stanford University researchers are designing an operating system from the ground up to handle the power and security requirements of mobile devices. The Cinder operating system is already working on an Arm chip, and members of the team are working on making it run on the HTC G1 handset, according to Philip Levis, a Stanford assistant professor. Levis spoke about Cinder at the Stanford Computer Forum on Tuesday. If an application isn't running as fast as the user wants, a Cinder-based phone could include a button to boost the energy allocated to that application, Levis said. Cinder also could allow users to download any code and run it safely on their phones in a 'sandbox' mode."

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[Anonymous Coward]

If you over-amp a sandboxed app too much, you end up with molten glass.

Re:Umm

[jonbryce]

Is it like the Turbo button you used to get on ancient desktop computers?

Re:Umm

[sakdoctor]

Those who don't understand the TURBO BUTTON are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.