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Collapse OS: exactly what it sounds like (collapseos.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth (why Forth?) operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse.

imagine noticing that civilization is collapsing around you and not immediately opening an emacs lisp buffer so you can painstakingly recreate the entire compiler toolchain and runtime environment for the microcontrollers around you as janky code running in your editor. fucking amateurs

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

it runs on a very short list of 80s computers that even now are barely functional due to their age, the sega master system (or the master system emulator inside the European genesis you might even have), a ti-84+ calculator of course, or a kit computer from 2018 that also uses parts from the 80s

edit:

You use Linux, you use Windows. You operate Dusk OS.

Can you operate Linux? Sure, if you're some kind of god, in the same way that you can operate a Tesla if you're a top Tesla engineer. But you're much more likely to be able to operate a landmower than a Tesla.

can’t sneer anymore, this is clearly our reality’s version of Andrew Ryan writing the software stack that’ll run rapture

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're laughing now, but we'll see who's laughing after zombie plague rapture skynet destroys every random LenovoDellHP around and Trash-80 achieves 100% market share!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

your post-apocalypse computing environment has to be shittier and less fun to use than a Commodore Amiga or else it’s like dangling delicious meat in front of a newborn acausal robot god looking for the last morsels of usable computing to occupy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I need to procure a cane, engrave Would You Kindly into it, and then use it to whip the ass.

Edit: operate it, one might say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

a man operates, a slave uses