docs(twitter): add 1651268028795961344 corpus (NOTimothyLottes DuskOS + Forth-as-asm)

5-post thread, 0 media, April 2023. NOTimothyLottes + @kenpex + @wadetb.
Links DuskOS (a Forth-as-asm-level-OS). NOTimothyLottes: Forth as
OLPC boot firmware has been done (openbios). 'Can make a custom
forth to binary in a few K. Bring up a runtime assembler in the
language and do anything fast and simple from that point, load
libraries, make system/dll C calls. 100,000x complexity reduction
in compiler toolchain size.' Seed of the whole Forth-in-runtime
workstream that shows up in the Jul 2026 threads (nasm-bootstrapped
4 KiB Linux Forth, micro macro-forth, etc).
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title: "@kenpex @wadetb Can make a custom forth to binary in a few K. Bring up a runtime"
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# @NOTimothyLottes — @kenpex @wadetb Can make a custom forth to binary in a few K. Bring up a runtime
## Post 1 (2023-04-25 01:51:48)
Nerds are crazy https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos
## Post 2 (2023-04-26 02:53:17) — reply to Post 1
@kenpex I find the context hilarious, but Forth as asm-level-yet-very-usable-mini-OS has been done, as the boot firmware for OLPC (http://laptop.org) for many years. Looks like it's currently open sourced as https://github.com/openbios/openbios.
## Post 3 (2023-04-26 15:56:37) — reply to Post 2
@wadetb Yes of course. Forth is a language that took me a while to grok (re:the why it makes sense) - but once I understood the context it totally does. @NOTimothyLottes experiments w/it are also fun.
## Post 4 (2023-04-26 16:52:31) — reply to Post 3
@kenpex @wadetb Can make a custom forth to binary in a few K. Bring up a runtime assembler in the language and do anything fast and simple from that point, load libraries, make system/dll C calls. 100,000x complexity reduction in compiler toolchain size.
## Post 5 (2023-04-26 17:50:16) — reply to Post 4
@NOTimothyLottes @kenpex @wadetb A few K? Why not just 1K? https://strlen.com/false-language/
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