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From: waddingt@umn-cs.UUCP (Jake Waddington )
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: A 'generic 68K OS' needed
Message-ID: <978@umn-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 17:34:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 17:34:28 1986
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In article <267@pilchuckDataio.UUCP> sman@pilchuckDataio.UUCP (Michael Spillman) writes:
>> For those in 68K who were just included, the question has been raised
>> as to the possibility of a "Standard OS" for the 68K machines such
>> as Amiga, Atari, and MacIntosh.  Unix and OS-9 have been proposed
>> and discussed at length in both net.micro.amiga and net.micro.atari.
>
>	My nomination for generic OS is some version of public domain Forth,
>	(available in source form, possibly a cleaned up F.I.G. version).
>	It already is 'generic' and widely available.  With a little
>	enthusiastic help, all kinds of utilities and shells could be
>	contributed (for those who don't want to see the messy details).
>

	How do we port compilers to a Forth system. I like forth. It makes 
good and low cost system but, I have never seen a compiler for "C", or Pascal, or a Lisp that would run on top of a forth based system. If we could do it
might be nice. No need for a "shell" in the Unix sence. Forth is interactive.
It would be the shell.

	Paul Fink
	ihnp4!umn-cs!waddingt