@manifoldslug The plan is basically to build a small binary seed and bootstrap a friendlier programming system from that. The problem is that the architecture is very weird (Casio Pocket Viewer) so if I want to make the best use of the hardware I have to do some Weird Shit, like actually make use of segmentation instead of ignoring it.
My current approach is to start from #JonesForth and port it to 16 bit DOS and just play around with the language in DOSBox. I hope I can make the use of segmentation and threading less hacky than DOS by taking a holistic approach to the compiler, runtime, and storage.
A lot of the issues I see with storage and memory management seem to come from having to consider the program to be a black box. I hope that designing all the layers to work together can alleviate some of the irritating quirks of the hardware, like segmentation, or write amplification.
The end result I want is something like a small portable and malleable knowledge base and computational playground, something like a Lisp/Smalltalk/Forth machine in your pocket, plus some database features.

#forth #jonesforth