M/PC – A Concatenative OS
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chirsz
42 minutes ago
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Does this name come from reversing "CP/M"?
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f47204
1 hour ago
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maybe I am dumb, but I don't really get how this is different to just piping between commands?
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MrEricSir
3 hours ago
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Not to be confused with MPC, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC
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benj111
4 hours ago
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Is this not more of a shell than an os?

Nevertheless an interesting idea. Unix pipes are basically concatenative, I've often thought how much mileage you could get out of going more in this direction.

Having said that. This has a lot of forth in it. (Dup, over, rot) I'm not sure the forth way, of passing options in the stack would necessarily work so well in a shell.

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quotemstr
3 hours ago
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It kind of asks "What if we built an OS, but with all data sourced from immutable, append-only logs processed by pure functios?"

Probably not literally realizable right now, but IMHO, the closer we can get, the better

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