Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp

Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp by reikonomusha on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:24AM (#20213338)

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.

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Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp by theamk on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:50PM (#20229693)

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.

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Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp by chapium on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:41AM (#20213570)

I don't know about you, but I rewrite all of my appliance firmware in chicken scheme.

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Re:Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp by z3phyr on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:04AM (#20221607)

That's basically C though ;)

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