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crosstalk
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michaelengel / crosstalk

crosstalk

Smalltalk-80 bare metal implementation for the Raspberry Pi

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Smalltalk-80 bare metal implementation for the Raspberry Pi

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Observed mentions: 2020-07-11 21:43:37 UTC to 2023-08-27 02:34:11 UTC.

01232020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

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Your concept looks nice, it reminds me a bit of the Lisperati: https://www.hackster.io/news/the-lisperati1000-is-a-cyberdec... So, did you consider Lisp or maybe Smalltalk? Plan 9 or Inferno might also be options. Plan 9 comes in different variants, the "classic" one (with a Raspberry Pi port by Richard Miller) or 9front, an Inferno porting tutorial can be found at https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi Lisp and Smalltalk can run with or without Linux underneath, e.g. on the Raspberry Pi. Bare-metal Lisp is available with interim: http://interim-os.com Finally, bare-metal Smalltalk is available in my crosstalk system: https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk Of course, Lisp and Smalltalk can also run hosted under Linux, e.g. using Squeak (https://squeak.org), Pharo (https://pharo.org) or InterLisp (https://github.com/Interlisp/medley). O
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r - a crazy idea - build an emacs-only machine. That would be fun! :)
In Ask HN: What software stack to select for my project (a modern retro computer)?

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