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Re: SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only?

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visualforth@rocketmail.com wrote:

> "SynthOS(tm) is a revolutionary tool that synthesizes an application
> specific operating system ("ASOS") based on some basic system criteria and
> the applications running on top of it. There is no need for the developer
> to worry about setting semaphores, mutexes, or priority flags or creating
> task context blocks, message queues, task mailboxes-these are all created
> automatically. There is no need to worry about race conditions, deadlocks,
> processor hogging, or unserviced tasks because the ASOS is
> correct-by-design. The resulting ASOS is portable to any processor and is
> optimized for speed, size, latency times, and security." That's what I
> just read about SynthOS. Source: http://www.synthosonline.com/
> 
> Here what they claim:
> 
> SynthOS creates ... an extremely small footprint. SynthOS has a very small
> learning curve; it greatly improves reliability.
> 
> SynthOS requires the knowledge of only five primitives rather than over
> 100 APIs as with many RTOSs.
> 
> It allows a faster time to market because of the short learning curve.
> Plus the OS is correct by design, thereby cutting down debug time.
> 
> SynthOS creates a very small footprint OS. Some of our demos have ... less
> than 1K bytes. This means you can squeeze entire systems onto an FPGA or
> SoC without external memory.
> 
> It lowers hardware costs because you can now put multitasking systems on
> simple, cheap, 8-bit and even 4-bit processors without external memory
> chips.
> 
> Your system is portable to new processors because it doesn't rely on
> specific processor hardware for supporting the OS.
> 
> Source: http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=216&doc_id=1323577
> 
> Is this the end for Forth on microcontrollers or only a challenge for
> Forth?

If no-one is putting effort into establishing this SynthOS onto the 
processor of your choice, who is going to have sufficient overview to know 
the quality of what is embedded onto the hardware to be able to produce 
certification for systems where such things matter?

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SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only? visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-08-20 08:23 -0700
  Re: SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2014-08-20 09:05 -0700
  Re: SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-08-20 12:16 -0500
  Re: SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-08-20 20:58 +0000
  Re: SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only? Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-08-20 22:00 +0100
    Re: SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-08-21 03:10 -0700
      Re: SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only? Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-08-22 01:43 +0100
        Re: SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-08-22 00:41 -0700
  Re: SynthOS - the end for Forth on microcontrollers or a challenge for Forth only? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-08-21 10:17 -0700

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