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Convenience scripts to run Open Genera on Mac OS X or a modern Linux.
> On the hardware side I want to use small and simple systems
If you'd like to build a fully understandable computer, you might be interested in concatenative languages like Forth, Factor, and colorForth. These use a much simpler and more understandable, typically stack-based computational model that run on microcontrollers like STM32. You can create more complex words by composing together simple assembly-language-like atoms and building higher and higher layers of abstraction.
- https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/FAQ/Why%3F
- Motivation section from: https://bernd-paysan.de/why-forth.html
> On the software side I have a simple GUI and macro language that is easy to learn and much much simpler and more elegant than current conventional UIs.
A good starting point or source of inspiration might be the Smalltalk and Lisp Machines from the past.
- Introduction to the Smalltalk Programming Language: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1241904/Introduction-to...
- How Do I Master The Art of Smalltalk? https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-master-the-art-of-Smalltalk?s...
- Live Objects in Smalltalk Pharo: https://www.quora.com/What-is-this-live-objects-in-Smalltalk...
- Smalltalk Principles: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk....
You might also be interested in this blog from a guy who is trying to build his own OS from scratch and run it on an FPGA: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55 Some of his earlier writings about Symbolics Open Genera and Lisp machines are also quite interesting and might be a good source of ideas and principles: http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=8&paged=5
https://github.com/ynniv/vagrant-opengenera has some instructions to get started.
http://3e8.org/blog/2016/04/04/symbolics-concordia-in-a-virt... can take you a bit further.
You should give smalltalk a try too, same idea but OOP focus ("defining" maybe rather) https://squeak.org/