Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes"

On 28/05/2025 2:02 pm, Richard wrote:

[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
 
dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> spake the secret code
<e0b2f1d0a67ca321c4f69f66bef506de768eac9f@i2pn2.org> thusly:
 

[...] A reason Moore gives
for leaving Forth Inc was 'Forth started simple, gradually accreting layers
of complexity and that became the culture'.  If there's a gene for simplicity
it hasn't passed down the generations.

 
While this is a nice story, it seems to assume that FORTH exists in a
timeless vacuum and that it's still 1970.  Microcontrollers today have
more resources than a PDP-11/70 from 1975.  As much as the appetite
of the hardware has increased, the appetite for features from
customers has increased even further.  The more compute power is put
into the hands of customers, the larger their appetite for features
and tasks to be put under control of the computer.

Are customers driving obsolescence - or it's forced on them by manufacturers?
I could go for 10 years without upgrading phones, computers etc.  But I'm not
given the chance.