Tumble Forth

As brilliant as these bootstrap efforts are, I wonder if it would be a good decision to abandon all the business and application software in a civilization collapse. Someone on the GitHub project page for collapseos made a good comment to the effect of having gone through the software and hardware limitations of the late 70s and 80s, wouldn’t it be better to get follow the best practices of the era without the patent limitations? I think as I go along, I agree more and more with mental model. Esoteric hardware aside, it would be best to come up with a base model for the era of early personal computers then figure out a way to bootstrap a freedos on top of a unix type of operating system underneath and time share on top for users to log in using terminals. But that’s just my mode of thinking. Originally collapseos seemed to follow the BASIC model then it became about forth.

Re: Tumble Forth

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 2:55 AM UTC

PLenz wrote: post #2

Hugged to death?

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Re: Tumble Forth

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Post by csande17 » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 3:03 AM UTC

PLenz wrote: post #2

Hugged to death?

The site doesn't seem to support HTTPS, but HTTP works fine. (This might be intentional; all the links on the home page have http: URLs, not https:.)

Re: Tumble Forth

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Post by vitiral » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 4:02 AM UTC

guestbest wrote: post #4

As brilliant as these bootstrap efforts are, I wonder if it would be a good decision to abandon all the business and application software in a civilization collapse. Someone on the GitHub project page for collapseos made a good comment to the effect of having gone through the software and hardware limitations of the late 70s and 80s, wouldn’t it be better to get follow the best practices of the era without the patent…

See the author's own efforts under "DuskOS"

Re: Tumble Forth

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Post by LispSporks22 » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 4:18 AM UTC

I love diving into other peoples forths and checking out what trade offs they made. After figuring out the model (theaded, token etc.) I usually jump to the flags, dictionary layout and then the assembler (in forth) if it has one. My favorite is still f83 - it’s a masterpiece.

Re: Tumble Forth

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Post by packetlost » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 4:51 AM UTC

LispSporks22 wrote: post #8

I love diving into other peoples forths and checking out what trade offs they made. After figuring out the model (theaded, token etc.) I usually jump to the flags, dictionary layout and then the assembler (in forth) if it has one. My favorite is still f83 - it’s a masterpiece.

Which F83?

Re: Tumble Forth

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Post by LispSporks22 » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 5:29 AM UTC

packetlost wrote: post #9

LispSporks22 wrote: post #8

I love diving into other peoples forths and checking out what trade offs they made. After figuring out the model (theaded, token etc.) I usually jump to the flags, dictionary layout and then the assembler (in forth) if it has one. My favorite is still f83 - it’s a masterpiece.

Which F83?

F83 Forth by Laxen & Perry https://github.com/ForthHub/F83