One of the first systems that I could actually touch was a 68K/S100 system
back in early '80s; it ran a unix-like OS. It was made by a Seattle area
company named Empirical Research Group. The CPU board had Forth in ROM. I
was lucky enough to witness one of the designers perform some serious
On Jun 21, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Ethan A. Gardener wrote:
>
> Thanks! I don't know APL at all, beyond the fact that its need for a
> graphical (or at least sophisticated) display held it back in the past. I
> should probably look into it now, I'm sure it would save me from making some
> mistakes
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, at 6:39 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:35:42PM +0100, Ethan A. Gardener wrote:
> >
> > a sort of operating system where the primary interface to all tasks is
> > a Forth interpreter.
>
> I think we've talked about this in another venue some years
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, at 5:49 AM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 05:58:42 +0200 Lucio De Re wrote:
> Lucio De Re writes:
> > On 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener wrote:
> > > [ ... ] Most of it is going into game scripting at the moment, but on the
> > > b
> > ack
> > > burner is a
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, at 4:58 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
> On 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener wrote:
> > [ ... ] Most of it is going into game scripting at the moment, but on the
> > back
> > burner is a Forth-based project; a sort of operating system where the
> > primary interface to all tasks is a
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, at 8:20 AM, Mart Zirnask wrote:
> On 21/06/2018, Ethan A. Gardener wrote:
> >... I no longer have a desk of
> > the right proportions to make mouse use comfortable, and can no longer bend
> > over a laptop for hours on end, (a Thinkpad with 3 buttons,) text editing in
> >
i'm using plan9port (thanks, rsc) on linux for some 8 years now, for all
coding - mostly low-brow web dev
primarily Acme as IDE, Rc and awk for scripting the necessary tooling
back when i was stuck at a corpo and had to use Windows on workstation, i
installed
p9p on one of build servers and ran
I’m late to the thread, but this seems like a good point to step in.
I’m using plan9 on a quad-core Raspberry Pi as a sort of universal terminal to
manage some of my home machines, and recently deleted the 9front VM I had on my
home KVM server because even though the programming model and Go
On 21/06/2018, Ethan A. Gardener wrote:
>... I no longer have a desk of
> the right proportions to make mouse use comfortable, and can no longer bend
> over a laptop for hours on end, (a Thinkpad with 3 buttons,) text editing in
> Plan 9 has become unpleasant. I could patch Samterm and Rio to
