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# Introduction to Collapse OS
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Collapse OS is a minimal operating system created to preserve
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the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational
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collapse. Its author expects the collapse of the global supply
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chain means the loss of our computer production capability. Many
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microcontrollers require a computer to program them.
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Collapse OS innovates by self-hosting on extremely tight resour-
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ces and is thus (theoretically thus far) able to operate and be
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improved in a world without modern computers.
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# Forth
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This OS is a Forth. It doesn't adhere to any pre-collapse stand-
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ard, but is pretty close to the Forth described by Starting
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Forth by Leo Brodie. It is therefore the recommended introduct-
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ory material to learn Forth in the context of Collapse OS.
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If you don't have access to this book and don't know anything
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about Forth, learning Collapse OS could be a rough ride, but
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don't despair. There's a Forth primer in primer.txt.
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# Documentation and self-hosting
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Collapse OS is self-hosting, its documentation is not, that is,
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Collapse OS cannot read this document you're reading. Text
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blocks could, of course, be part of Collapse OS' blocks, but
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doing so needlessly uses blocks and make the system heavier than
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it should.
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This documentation is expected to be printed before the last
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modern computer of your community dies.
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