Re:Collapse OS
by albandread on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:04PM
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I like the Collapse OS concept.
I once typed Fig Forth from a booklet I ordered from America into a Sharp Z80 computer.
Society was in the main computer free at the time. It was like the post collapse era.
To restart the software industry from scratch; I recommend etching a modern version of that Fig Forth booklet onto stone tablets; perhaps provide a scheme interpreter written in forth as well.
They will never need anything else.
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I was also thinking that if I had to start from scratch, Forth would be a great way to do it. I'm not familiar with Fig Forth, but I just ran across these assembly sources for various early CPU architectures: http://www.forth.org/fig-forth/contents.html but they look really long. I wonder if that booklet you had was simpler than these. (Any idea if it's available online?) I was thinking something like jones forth https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187248 which has a minimal assembly part (which is mostly comments explaining how it all works) and then quickly moves to implementing Forth in Forth itself.