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crc's _ _
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| | |/ _ \ a tiny virtual computer
| | | (_) | 64kw RAM, 32-bit, Dual Stack, MISC
|_|_|\___/ (c) charles childers
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# Welcome!
This is ilo, a little virtual computer. ilo is mostly used with
Konilo, a personal computing system written in Forth.
A brief overview:
- 65,536 memory locations ("cells")
- 32 bits per cell
- block storage device
- stack based architecture
- minimal instruction set (30 instructions)
- easy to implement and exend
This supports a variety of host architectures. Precompiled
(mostly static) binaries are included for Linux, OpenBSD,
NetBSD, FreeBSD, MS-DOS, macOS, Haiku, Classic Mac Systems 5-7,
and Windows. It has been tested and confirmed to work on x86
(8088+), amd64, arm64, and 68000 processors. Physical RAM
requirements are around 384K.
In addition to the provided binaries, many implementations of
ilo are included. These include Assembly, C, C++, C#, Common
Lisp, D, Go, Hare, JavaScript, Kotlin, Lua, Nim, Python,
RetroForth, Rust, Swift, and TypeScript.
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