Interim OS is a radical new operating system with a focus on minimalism. It steals conceptually from Lisp machines (language-based kernel) and Plan 9 (everything is a file system). It boots to a JITting Lisp-like REPL and offers the programmer/user the system’s resources as filesystems.
You can run it on a Raspberry Pi 2, or as a hosted operating system on ARM Linux, x86 Linux, OS X, Windows, and even on AmigaOS 3.x.
Looks like the development started and ended in 2015.
I haven’t downloaded it, but I like the concepts though: LISP, Plan9, JIT compilation. One could do some powerful things if, instead of a conventional kernel syscall API, one could invoke kernel calls using LISP expressions!
What do you mean development ended in 2015? The most recent commit was on July 29 this year. And there were commits b/w 2015-2018 as well (not too many, but a commit is a commit).
Vistaus,
But did you look at the contents of those commits (by that I mean click on them and see what was changed)…
https://github.com/mntmn/interim/commits/master
There are trivial changes to output text and function prototypes, but it looks like the last real development happened in 2015. The author may be making small changes so it looks current on his resume, I don’t know. I don’t mean to offend however, so if we want to consider the project active, then sure.
I’ll admit I threw the towel in with my indy-os, I felt I had the technical skill to build it, but after college I needed to shift my focus to making a living and I determined supporting popular operating systems was more viable than writing my own. In retrospect, I made the better choice, but I do have regrets that I hadn’t been able to follow my passion.
Edited 2018-10-13 18:02 UTC
Minimalist code has tendency to evolve, instead of going extinct, Thom.
All efforts like these should be financed.
Same goes for architectures.
I don’t think Thom said anything to the contrary in this post. So, I don’t understand why he’s being mentioned specifically. Am I missing some context?
Sorry about addressing.
“The shell is the editor is the REPL is the language is the compiler.”
It kinda warms my heart to know Terry wasn’t so insane after all.
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