That's very neat ! You might want to consider using a derivative of that PDP-11 work in a IoT (Internet of Things) context.
IoT devices really need a better programming environment than that provided by Arduino development tools. On 28 June 2018 at 02:20, Brian L. Stuart <blstu...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > On Wed, 6/20/18, Ethan A. Gardener <eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > but on the back burner is a > > Forth-based project; a sort of operating system where the > > primary interface to all tasks is a Forth interpreter. So > > far, I've written the basics of a text editor. It's > > *very* little code! > > I love seeing this idea coming back around. Way back > in college, one of my senior projects was a little OS on > the PDP-11 that was done exactly this way. The app > language and the command language were a Forth > implementation I had done out of curiosity in my freshman > year. About a year and half ago, I got it running again, > first in simh, then on a little LSI-11 in those cute little > BA11-VA boxes. It was wild seeing that running again > after over 30 years, and I found and fixed a concurrency > bug. :) One of my students did (mostly just started on) > a project his past term that's gotten me to thinking a > little about reimplementing the whole thing on a Pi. > > BLS > >
