M/PC – A Concatenative OS

caminanteblanco 54 points 8 comments July 06, 2026
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benj111

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.

MrEricSir

Not to be confused with MPC, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC

f47204

maybe I am dumb, but I don't really get how this is different to just piping between commands?

chirsz

Does this name come from reversing "CP/M"?

mtdewcmu

Looks like the hardware this runs on has only 64 KB RAM.

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