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| Date | 2012-06-28 08:59 -1000 |
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| From | "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> |
| Organization | FORTH, Inc. |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: any chance of 4os being open sourced? |
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On 6/27/12 10:16 PM, quiet_lad wrote: ... > be awesome to show up the C world with a working os done in forth with > working gui and web browser > > maybe thats millions of times harder than I imagine > It's a big enough job that it would require substantial motivation, such as being paid to do it, and it wouldn't be inexpensive. There are a lot of requirements for a web browser. polyFORTH in the late 1980s had a nice GUI and data base system, but it wasn't a general-purpose OS in the sense of being able to support fully independent applications written in other languages. Cheers, Elizabeth -- ================================================== Elizabeth D. Rather (US & Canada) 800-55-FORTH FORTH Inc. +1 310.999.6784 5959 West Century Blvd. Suite 700 Los Angeles, CA 90045 http://www.forth.com "Forth-based products and Services for real-time applications since 1973." ==================================================
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