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From: "Iruatã Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:18:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABJnqBRwXXyWsR-6=gDEJikD4C8umEp2en8uYO_jPCLzFC1g4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180621053904.GA17419@wopr>

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> 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 back, but I
> often thing of the OpenFirmware implementation used by the OLPC XO-1
> laptop.  Instead of a BIOS or UEFI or linux trash in their stead, the
> system was managed by an OpenFirmware installation, much of which was
> written in Forth, and whose primary interface was a Forth shell.  This
> environment had complete access to the hardware of the system, which
> was used by the project to create really comprehensive hardware
> diagnostics tools.
>

Kurt and Ethan,

I am sure you know that, but Forth has basically started as an
language + operating system and stayed there for quite some time.
Forth hosted on other operating systems is the (not so) new thing.

For a "recent" instance of Forth language+os for the pc, check Andy
Valencia's ForthOS.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-27  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-11  6:14 刘宇宝
2018-06-12 14:57 ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-14  2:53 ` N. S. Montanaro
2018-06-14  3:53   ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-14  5:17     ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-14 21:12       ` hiro
2018-06-15  0:57         ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-15  2:24           ` N. S. Montanaro
2018-06-15 11:44           ` hiro
2018-06-16 13:39     ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2018-06-16 15:26       ` Jerome Ibanes
2018-06-21  9:06     ` Rui Carmo
2018-06-21  9:53       ` dexen deVries
     [not found]       ` <BJXPR01MB0277C36675F3F1EA52FC46EAD44B0@BJXPR01MB0277.CHNPR01.prod.partner.outlook.cn>
2018-06-26  3:24         ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-26  6:36           ` Tyga
2018-06-27 19:10             ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-27 18:45           ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-14  9:46 ` Tyga
2018-06-14 14:22   ` Steve Simon
2018-06-14 16:15     ` tlaronde
2018-06-14 17:23       ` hiro
2018-06-14 17:45     ` Daniel Camoles
2018-06-15  6:13       ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-15 13:51         ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-15 14:26           ` hiro
2018-06-15 16:03             ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-15 17:47             ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-15 19:02         ` Mark van Atten
2018-06-15 23:58           ` Iruatã Souza
2018-06-16  9:35             ` tlaronde
2018-06-18  8:35             ` Mark van Atten
2018-06-14 21:20   ` hiro
2018-06-20 21:35 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21  3:58   ` Lucio De Re
2018-06-21  4:49     ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-21 16:02       ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 15:23     ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 18:03       ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-25  9:33         ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-26  5:17           ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-27 19:01             ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-26 21:03           ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-21  5:39   ` Kurt H Maier
2018-06-21 16:39     ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-21 20:18     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2018-06-28  9:57       ` Richard Miller
2018-06-27  5:18     ` Iruatã Souza [this message]
2018-06-28  2:04       ` Tyga
2018-06-21  7:20   ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-21 15:11     ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-06-24  8:22       ` 刘宇宝
2018-06-15  8:16 cinap_lenrek
     [not found] <1740027127.295380.1529081094082.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-06-15 16:44 ` Brian L. Stuart
2018-06-15 18:16   ` Mark van Atten
     [not found] <1401313358.335074.1529087916083.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-06-15 18:38 ` Brian L. Stuart
     [not found] <135406475.3232013.1530116414782.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-06-27 16:20 ` Brian L. Stuart
2018-06-28  2:06   ` Tyga
2018-06-28  7:22     ` Mart Zirnask
2018-06-28 18:47       ` Bakul Shah

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