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Using a standalone Forth is more or less a rejection of the utility of an operating system. My years of using a stand alone Forth for day to day computing insti
by upofadown 12y ago
Using a standalone Forth is more or less a rejection of the utility of an operating system. My years of using a stand alone Forth for day to day computing instilled in me a deep cynicism when it comes to the complexity of operating systems.
- agumonkey 12y agoI've been reading kragen mailing lists where they bootstrap a lot of 'utilities' on metal with asm (using alt keycodes as 'editor', funky). It's very inspiring and relaxing to see how few things you need to start using a computer. It flatten the whole abstraction stack into a thin core.