New brainfart for threaded VFS and data passing between threads.

Gary Thorpe gathorpe79 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 5 21:22:15 PDT 2004


Forth is a stack-based language. I would guess this limits concurrency 
to 1 in all cases. It is nice for embedded single-threaded code, but is 
an OS a realistic target?

Dan Melomedman wrote:

Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:

Yeah, they just posted a network stack + ethernet driver + dhcp client
in about 130 lines of code :-)
Wouldn't it be great to have a lean mean OS written in Forth? Forth is
just slightly bigger than assembly, but a very time-saving language even
by comparison with C (both speed/size and productivity)a.






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