From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <135406475.3232013.1530116414782.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <135406475.3232013.1530116414782@mail.yahoo.com> From: Mart Zirnask Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:22:58 +0300 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d921b3f6-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >