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M/PC – A Concatenative OS

46 pointsby caminanteblancoyesterday at 8:08 PM5 commentsview on HN

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chirsztoday at 2:39 AM

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

f47204today at 1:29 AM

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

MrEricSirtoday at 12:18 AM

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

benj111yesterday at 10:31 PM

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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