Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
by kthartic on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:01AM
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Quake? That's your reference point? That game came out in the 90s. My Samsung washing machine could probably run that.
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Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
by reikonomusha on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:24AM
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Your Samsung washing machine probably runs Linux though. Can you run it on a non-UNIXy OS?
It’s amazing that this OS also has its own compiler and runtime capable of running Quake translated into Lisp.
Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
by theamk on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:50PM
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I don't think it runs Linux, there is tons of embedded OS's.
It could be Nuclus, RIOS OS, or most likely, some sort of proprietary OS which was shipped with specific MCU they are using.
OS writing is pretty simple, as long as you do not need a ton of device drivers and networking. There are over two dozen of them listed there: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Embedded_Systems/Common_RTOS and that is not a complete list.
Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
by chapium on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:41AM
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I don't know about you, but I rewrite all of my appliance firmware in chicken scheme.
Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
by z3phyr on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:04AM
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That's basically C though ;)
Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
by kjs3 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @02:40PM
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My Samsung washing machine runs on (I believe) an mc6800 variant (not mc68000). It's admittedly not a surf-the-net/watch-tv-while-you-watch version, so no Quake, but on the upside, no viruses.
Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
by luxuryballs on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @07:56AM
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Better virus check that thing.