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Konilo - personal computer OS written in Forth

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From: no.email@nospam.invalid (Paul Rubin)
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Subject: Konilo - personal computer OS written in Forth
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 12:32:26 -0800
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by: Paul Rubin - Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:32 UTC

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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Konilo - personal computer OS written in Forth	Paul Rubin