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Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now?

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lawrencedo99@gmail.com writes:
> It means you have a whole range of languages and tools and toolkits
> and applications available immediately to hand, not just one.

I don't see how that follows.  Certainly the minicomputer OS's of the
1970s/80s were "real OS's".  It said so right in the name.  But they
were mostly programmed in assembly code and the tool support wasn't all
that hot.

The microbit has comparable hardware resources to those minis and I
don't see any obstacle to it running comparable software including
multi-user timesharing.  Running a traditional Forth multitasker on it
would be quite natural, and that's comparable to what's called an RTOS
today.

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Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-09-07 11:24 -0500
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                Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now? Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com> - 2016-10-20 10:00 +0100
                Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 19:09 -0400
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                Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-21 16:31 -0700
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                Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-22 12:14 -0700
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            Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-09-10 10:58 -0500
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                Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-11 12:27 -0700
                Re: BBC MicroBit has arrived - which Forth in Python is recommended for now? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-09-11 14:57 -0500
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