Hi Alex,
Yea, I was afraid that the PilOS was a bit dated but was encouraged when
I saw that it would boot, in legacy BIOS mode, on some hardware that I
have used to test. Will have to explore much more, but ultimately would
like to have an UEFI version that will boot with the latest pil21
release if my project gets that far in that it is an AI and ML bare
metal project that will use specialized graph knowledge database (built
on PicoLisp which I am really starting to enjoy BTW). I have enjoyed
Lisp going back to my college days but really did not use it a lot since
that time however, now I really want to get back into the Lisp world and
for my purposes I think that PicoLisp could be exactly what I have been
seeking.
I'll have to investigate what it might take to create a new modern PilOS
based on the latest Pil21 as well as to explore the ideas of how to
implement a viable graph database in it also.
There are a few other Lisp on hardware projects that I have come across,
but most are still in a very early state and would not easily boot up
even in legacy BIOS mode not to mention that I actually like the
features of PicoLisp that I have been reading on lately as well.
Thanks again and I will keep studying up on PicoLisp towards these goals.
Best
Lonnie
On 5/14/2025 1:30 AM, Alexander Burger wrote:
Hi Lonnie,
(https://picolisp.com/wiki/?PilOS) which I was able to put on a USB and
boot on some hardware just to test out a little.
I am wondering if there are any documentation on the available commands
for PilOS (and running some demos) so that I can explore more?
I'm afraid there is only the above article. PilOS was not continued, and
also is rather outdated because it is built on the now obsolete pil64
(as opposed to the current pil21).
The problem with PilOS is that it does not implement any device drivers,
but uses BIOS calls, which interface only to a few things like display,
keyboard, disk etc, and that most modern hardware does not even support
the standard BIOS calls.
☺/ A!ex
