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 <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> 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
>
>