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IMO the Oberon operating system would be a really good fit for this type of hardware. http://www.projectoberon.net/ http://www.projectoberon.net/
by eterps 3y ago
IMO the Oberon operating system would be a really good fit for this type of hardware.
http://www.projectoberon.net/ http://www.projectoberon.net/
- weinzierl 3y agoI love all the things from Niklaus Wirth I know, but I only casually know about Oberon. From a glance I don't see the connection. Could you elaborate why this would be a good fit.
- eterps 3y agoIt's a simple and small system that renders directly to a framebuffer (Project Oberon only supports black and white), it's optimized for simple CPU architectures (and that's an understatement), extremely small footprint and doesn't have a lot of resource usage.
- cyberax 3y agoThe members of the Oberon Cult just keep pushing it everywhere.
- eterps 3y agoAh of course, the large number of platforms where the Oberon OS has been pushed to by the many Oberon cult members ;)
- ekidd 3y agoI haven't touched Oberon since the 90s. But it was a fun little system. The language is one of the nicer Pascal descendents. The windowing system was similar to tiling. The entire system was tiny in terms of code. Everything was black and white. One of the nicest features was universally embeddable widgets. You could make a simple clock and embed it in running text, for example. Kind of like what OpenDoc dreamed of, or Google Wave's inline widgets, or what it might be like if you could extend Discord with custom UI in a few hundred lines of code. I wasn't motivated to keep using Oberon—it was honestly too odd and too small to compete with my other desktop options. But I do agree it would be neat to try with an eInk display. It's a small, interesting, black-and-white system with a minimalist UI. Particularly if you customized the UI input layer, it could be a neat tool for building small household dashboards.
- wchar_t 3y agoA FORTH gui would be an interesting project as well