I like how the rememes of this only get more complicated and less stable with time; hopefully this means the collapse is approaching, or else I’m learning forth for nothing!
I gotta say, I like the attitude of that guy, particularly with respect to funding. He’s blunt about “I would like to live off of my passion and the goodwill of others”, doesn’t do to the whole “support me on Patreon” spiel and straight up says “I’m looking for a rich philanthropist to fund my bare necessities, you’ll get gratitude and whatever I happen to produce in return but you won’t get to call shots.” It’s refreshingly honest.
Unfortunately, I’m neither rich nor particularly philanthropic (probably a byproduct of not being rich enough to afford it), but I wish him luck with his endeavour.
The intended use-case is for bit-banging, i.e. sending electricity to places according to certain algorithms. Think about simple automation, like the control chip in your washing machine which executes the selected program by sending enable/disable signals to the water pump, valves, and the motor. Well, the same basic principles could apply to a lot of industrial processes and such, helping us rebuild the civilization.
It would also be really fucking great for helping post-collapse engineers do various calculations. Those chips are really slow by modern standards, but insanely fast compared to an abacus, a slide rule, and a sheet of paper.
BTW there’s also dusk OS, which follows similar principles but is targeted for more advanced hardware, like the abundant x86 and ARM chips. It has a way more user-friendly interface, a basic GUI, filesystem drivers, and IIRC even networking capabilities, all possible to run on a PC from the early 90s. It also has great bootstrapping flow, allowing you to rebuild itself from source, flash itself to other computers, and flash Collapse OS onto microcontrollers.
Basically like a Linux install with all the dev-tools and sources already there, except much simpler, to the point that you probably can figure out how every component of the system works yourself, and fix issues when they happen. This knowledge will also directly translate into writing programs for collapse OS, because they share the programming language and many OS paradigms.
Interesting. I don’t know if older chips are less sensible to EM, I’d bet the reverse, so maybe one day this dusk os can run on an ESP-32! Netstack & USB integrated and lots of useful pins!
I like how the rememes of this only get more complicated and less stable with time; hopefully this means the collapse is approaching, or else I’m learning forth for nothing!
I gotta say, I like the attitude of that guy, particularly with respect to funding. He’s blunt about “I would like to live off of my passion and the goodwill of others”, doesn’t do to the whole “support me on Patreon” spiel and straight up says “I’m looking for a rich philanthropist to fund my bare necessities, you’ll get gratitude and whatever I happen to produce in return but you won’t get to call shots.” It’s refreshingly honest.
Unfortunately, I’m neither rich nor particularly philanthropic (probably a byproduct of not being rich enough to afford it), but I wish him luck with his endeavour.
I keep meaning to learn Forth since reading the Wiz Biz books ages ago
Fascinating!
I wonder what you can use it for, I mean 6502 or zilog 80 are not exactly power beasts nor network compatible.
But then again, what are we using computers for that we actually need in todays life…
The intended use-case is for bit-banging, i.e. sending electricity to places according to certain algorithms. Think about simple automation, like the control chip in your washing machine which executes the selected program by sending enable/disable signals to the water pump, valves, and the motor. Well, the same basic principles could apply to a lot of industrial processes and such, helping us rebuild the civilization.
It would also be really fucking great for helping post-collapse engineers do various calculations. Those chips are really slow by modern standards, but insanely fast compared to an abacus, a slide rule, and a sheet of paper.
BTW there’s also dusk OS, which follows similar principles but is targeted for more advanced hardware, like the abundant x86 and ARM chips. It has a way more user-friendly interface, a basic GUI, filesystem drivers, and IIRC even networking capabilities, all possible to run on a PC from the early 90s. It also has great bootstrapping flow, allowing you to rebuild itself from source, flash itself to other computers, and flash Collapse OS onto microcontrollers.
Basically like a Linux install with all the dev-tools and sources already there, except much simpler, to the point that you probably can figure out how every component of the system works yourself, and fix issues when they happen. This knowledge will also directly translate into writing programs for collapse OS, because they share the programming language and many OS paradigms.
Interesting. I don’t know if older chips are less sensible to EM, I’d bet the reverse, so maybe one day this dusk os can run on an ESP-32! Netstack & USB integrated and lots of useful pins!
Thanks for linking this, I had no idea “apocalypse ready” OSes were a thing people are designing and building, how neat!