On Wed, 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener <eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > but on the back burner is a > Forth-based project; a sort of operating system where the > primary interface to all tasks is a Forth interpreter. So > far, I've written the basics of a text editor. It's > *very* little code!
I love seeing this idea coming back around. Way back in college, one of my senior projects was a little OS on the PDP-11 that was done exactly this way. The app language and the command language were a Forth implementation I had done out of curiosity in my freshman year. About a year and half ago, I got it running again, first in simh, then on a little LSI-11 in those cute little BA11-VA boxes. It was wild seeing that running again after over 30 years, and I found and fixed a concurrency bug. :) One of my students did (mostly just started on) a project his past term that's gotten me to thinking a little about reimplementing the whole thing on a Pi. BLS
