• Konilo - personal computer OS written in Forth

    From Paul Rubin@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 4 12:32:26 2024
    I guess it has been around for a while but I don't remember seeing it
    mentioned here. It's at konilo.org. I came across it through a Hacker
    New discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570343

    It makes some peculiar choices imho. Its Forth uses a bytecode virtual
    machine with 30 instructions, 32-bit cells, and 16 bit addresses (word addressed memory, so 256K bytes of address space). It uses blocks and
    screens in something like the traditional style. There is a fair amount
    of documentation but it is in a block-based hypertext format that
    requires a bunch of clicking around. It would be great if there was
    also a linearly organized manual that one could simply read
    sequentially.

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