On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:35:42PM +0100, Ethan A. Gardener wrote: >> >> a sort of operating system where the primary interface to all tasks is >> a Forth interpreter. > > I think we've talked about this in another venue some years back, but I > often thing of the OpenFirmware implementation used by the OLPC XO-1 > laptop. Instead of a BIOS or UEFI or linux trash in their stead, the > system was managed by an OpenFirmware installation, much of which was > written in Forth, and whose primary interface was a Forth shell. This > environment had complete access to the hardware of the system, which > was used by the project to create really comprehensive hardware > diagnostics tools. >
Kurt and Ethan, I am sure you know that, but Forth has basically started as an language + operating system and stayed there for quite some time. Forth hosted on other operating systems is the (not so) new thing. For a "recent" instance of Forth language+os for the pc, check Andy Valencia's ForthOS.
