[Amforth-devel] Video quod vadis

[Christian B. <cas...@ca...>]

Servus, (=bavarian for hello and goodbye)

as you may know I have written some video routines for amforth (currently 
seperate).
I now wonder what direction we should go with them. There are already some 
routines hidden in the repository.
My personal vision is to have video output at 64x16 plus a status line 
(technically possible) so we can display forth blocks directly. This would 
save a lot of memory. 
If we would then also have the block commands, amforth would be on its way 
towards a fully functional desktop operating system. :)
Seriously if you can edit blocks, and send them to a printer, you can already 
write letters with your system. Now add a simple database, and you can do 
mass-mailings.
If you add some kind of networking via I2C you can send a kind of e-mail.

What do you think?

Servus
  Casandro