Overdose is a simple Yahoo! Chat client written in C, and using the curses library for text I/O. It is multithreaded using pthreads, and works on Linux/BSD/Unix and Windows.
Using Philips (NXP) boards LPC2148, LPC2138 and LPC2103 (ARM7 CPU) we are going to attempt to get an RTOS to work on them, such as MicroC/OSII that has a textbased input output using HyperTerminal.