Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers

> On top of that, Sylphide OS adds:

> drivers for mouse, keyboard, display, storage and network

and couple lines later

> What you don't have yet, but definitely planned:

> storage (microsd, usb) > network (ethernet, wifi)

I'm not gonna be angry at false advertising, but OS attempts only become appropriate to discuss once you made drivers and actually ran stuff on physical hardware

Before that point it's just one of the many dozens and dozens other half-efforted attempts at OS that have been done over and over to death by now

> Olimex esp32-p4-pc, the flagship product: new, powerful

That's a very cool board, but pretty tricky. Great idea to run an old Mac OS on it. I try on and off to port the Oberon System 3 to this board since I received it in February. The display already works pretty good, but still a lot of road blocks.

If it's running on MMU-less systems, I'd be interested in how it loads multiple programs into memory: does it need to relocate each program binary? If so, doesn't that preclude using execute-in-place (XIP)?

On one hand: Cool!

On the other hand: I have a lot of old hardware in my 'too good to go' garbage bin that can run a full fledged Linux, so what.

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