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•/PC

M/PC is a concatenative operating system for Varvara, inspired by Openfirmware, designed to manage files on system without a file browser. It uses the postfix notation, meaning that the function success their operands:

concatenative

Varvara

Openfirmware

Files can store reusable sequences of commands, the tilde prefix includes the content of the file:

The interface uses a single prompt at the top of the screen to input commands:

Controls

The operating system can be used largely without a keyboard to navigate folders and launch roms:

left/right Navigate Stack

up/down Scroll Stack

A Evaluate Selected Symbol

B Directory/Back

Kiosk

To start M/PC as a BIOS rom so that when the user presses F4, Varvara returns to the BIOS instead of triggering a reboot, launch with arguments:

Wallpaper

On boot, M/PC will try and draw an ICN file named wallpaperWWxHH.icn, where WW is the width of the screen divided by 8 in hexadecimal, and HH the height.

ICN file

Reference

Here is the list of all primitives:

icn file

blend

Screen

Console/write

Source, Latest

Source

Repository

Repository

Support:

Manifest

Theme

Snarf

Manifest

Theme

Snarf

incoming: 2026

2026