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yshurik / inferno-rpi

inferno-rpi

This is compilation of Labs “Porting Inferno OS to Raspberry Pi”. We decided to organize it as some set of small labs with very detailed steps of what is done to reach results and make everything easy to reproduce.

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This is compilation of Labs “Porting Inferno OS to Raspberry Pi”. We decided to organize it as some set of small labs with very detailed steps of what is done to reach results and make everything easy to reproduce.

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Some additional recommended reading... Lynxline's Inferno Labs on porting Inferno to the Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi (the related web site http://lynxline.com/ is currently not reachable) David Boddie's port of Inferno to the Ben NanoNote, a tiny MIPS-based handheld from 2010: https://www.boddie.org.uk/david/www-repo/Personal/Updates/20... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_NanoNote
In Inferno-OS: distributed operating system where everything is a file
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)?
Nice to see Inferno posted! Some Inferno related stuff: - Limbo by Example: https://github.com/henesy/limbobyexample - The Inferno Shell: http://debu.gs/entries/inferno-part-1-shell - Try Inferno in the browser: http://tryinferno.rekka.io/ - Cat-v Inferno resources: http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno - Experiments in Inferno/Limbo: https://github.com/caerwynj/inferno-lab/ - Inferno Programming with Limbo: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092801/http://www.gemuse... (also on cat-v) - Developing Limbo modules in C: https://powerman.name/doc/Inferno/c_module_en - Simple FS example in Limbo: https://github.com/henesy/simplefs-limbo - Inferno client for Redis: https://github.com/pete/iredis - Inferno for Nintendo DS: https://bitbucket.org/mjl/inferno-ds/src/default/ - Inferno as an Android app: https://github.com/bhgv/Inferno-OS_Android - Inferno
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replacing Android (hellaphone): https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home - Porting Inferno to Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi
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