MAmasijo·Dec 16, 2022
A slightly more updated (2018) revival of the same project is available here: https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS
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nopsys / CogNOS
CogNOS
A Cog VM in the bare metal using the Nopsys library
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A Cog VM in the bare metal using the Nopsys library
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Observed mentions: 2018-07-21 03:04:50 UTC to 2023-03-28 16:40:05 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesA recent start on this could be the NopSys/CogNos project, which built a standalone Smalltalk system on x86 a few years ago. There are GitHub repos[1,2,3] and a paper [4] where the authors write "there would certainly be much more work needed before one could consider deploying our system." The project seems to be inactive now.
1. https://github.com/nopsys/nopsys
2. https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS
3. https://github.com/nopsys/SmalltalkNOS
4. https://charig.github.io/assets/papers/SCDE-DLS.pdf
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