From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:20:14 +0000 From: "Brian L. Stuart" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <135406475.3232013.1530116414782@mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <135406475.3232013.1530116414782.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d8f462a2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener 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