_(Tom Novelli)'s original "Retro" was a _(FORTH)-based *(OS) and a prototype _(low-level) infrastructure for the _(TUNES project).

_(RetroForth | http://retroforth.org/) is now maintained by _(Charles Childers). It still aims to be simple and fun, but the emphasis is on "playing nicely" with popular OSes. It currently supports Linux, Windows, and DOS. Sometimes we still play with the Forth-OS idea, but for all practical purposes RetroForth as an OS is dead. Some people have projects seeking to use RetroForth as the basis of a new OS, but nothing has come from them yet...

(Author's note: I abandoned Retro because FORTH did not live up to my original expectations. A FORTH compiler is just as complicated as any other compiler, but the language is difficult to use; other languages provide more "bang for the buck". It was also overwhelming to write a complete OS which wasn't usable until the whole thing was done.. this "revolutionary" approach was impractical, so I've dropped it in favor of making evolutionary changes to Linux. For more postmortem details, see my _(Conclusions | http://tom.bespin.org/src/retro/retro.conclusions.txt) article and the _(Addendum | http://tom.bespin.org/src/retro/retro.addendum.txt). -- T.N.)