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Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology

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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. It is designed to: Additionally, the goal of this project is to be as self-contained as possible. With a copy of this project, a capable and creative person should be able to manage to build and install Collapse OS without external resources (i.e. internet) on a machine of her design, built from scavenged parts with low-tech tools. Collapse OS is published as tar bundles and available here. As you can see, it hasn't been updated in a while because its author is having way too much fun working on Dusk OS. Refer to instructions in the README at the root of those tar bundles. There has been an effort to include Collapse OS into Dusk itself. That effort is available in a git repo on SourceHut. However, I've walked back from that effort as I th

Bootstrap post-collapse technology 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. It is designed to: Run on minimal and improvised machines. Interface through improvised means (serial, keyboard, display). Edit text and binary contents. Compile assembler source for a wide range of MCUs and CPUs. Read and write from a wide range of storage devices. Assemble itself and deploy to another…

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