Regarding Forth systems, this might also be of interest:
http://cosy.com

"CoSy is the evolute of a life lived in noteComputing environments
built in Ken Iverson's APL and Arthur Whitney's K now built Ron
Aaron's open to the chip Reva Forth"

Mart



On 28/06/2018, Tyga <cyberfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's very neat !
>
> You might want to consider using a derivative of that PDP-11 work in a IoT
> (Internet of Things) context.
>
> IoT devices really need a better programming environment than that provided
> by Arduino development tools.
>
> On 28 June 2018 at 02:20, Brian L. Stuart <blstu...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>

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