Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology
collapseos.org

Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth (why Forth?) operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse.

imagine noticing that civilization is collapsing around you and not immediately opening an emacs lisp buffer so you can painstakingly recreate the entire compiler toolchain and runtime environment for the microcontrollers around you as janky code running in your editor. fucking amateurs

  • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    You’re laughing now, but we’ll see who’s laughing after zombie plague rapture skynet destroys every random LenovoDellHP around and Trash-80 achieves 100% market share!

    • self@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      your post-apocalypse computing environment has to be shittier and less fun to use than a Commodore Amiga or else it’s like dangling delicious meat in front of a newborn acausal robot god looking for the last morsels of usable computing to occupy