It's been a slow month because of my RSI, but I need closure on a couple of features I've been slowly building out: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2min-2020-09-02

I need closure because I've gotten excited recently about dropping my dependency on the Linux kernel, and a way to provide graphics without an OS.

Using BIOS.

waves hands. No, wait, come back. Check this out: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=21532. While using *VGA primitives is never going to give a large screen resolution or 60fps games, I think it might give us some nice new capabilities for very little code.

I'm starting to think of the BIOS as "a standard instruction set for all the other hardware besides the processor." That seems fruitful. (https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5U3SEW6A/p1597899212000500)

The real problem down this road is input. A keyboard will be fine. A mouse seems iffy but hopefully doable. But pressure-sensitive multi-touch, fuggedaboudit. So no minority-report-style FoC demos in Mu's future. Oh well. I'm not even sure what a reasonable API for multi-touch looks like, so I'm not going to worry about it for now.