Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1

[mocore]

just happened to find this link  https://raymii.org/s/blog/Vim_as_PID_1_Boot_to_Vim.txt

not shore if it should be in "Off-Topic - The Funnies" forum tbh 

[gadget42]

wonderful website and there is even a Gopher!
https://raymii.org/s/
gopher://raymii.org:70
https://raymii.org/s/static/About.html

that "vim as pid1" is also available in html:
https://raymii.org/s/blog/Vim_as_PID_1_Boot_to_Vim.html

also see the all-tags-page with 489 posts as of 20230305:
https://raymii.org/s/tags/all.html

and this link is specifically for @PDP-8(u=18480)[smileyface]:
https://raymii.org/s/articles/Running_TSS_8_on_the_DEC_PiDP-8_i_and_SIMH.html
(mostly due to the included pic of a nice pdp8):
https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/pidp-8-i.jpg

also of probable interest:
https://raymii.org/s/blog/Broken_Corrupted_Raspberry_Pi_SD_Card.html
https://raymii.org/s/blog/Spinrite_6.0_on_UEFI_and_NVMe_ssd_drives.html

Huge Kudos and HatTip to @mocore for taking the time to post this! awesome!

[mocore]

 https link in op above *now* appear to fail
 ftr http works
 http://raymii.org/s/blog/Vim_as_PID_1_Boot_to_Vim.txt
...
just ftr the method used is described in this quote

Compile vim statically, set it as `init=` at
boot and you're done.

We are going to use small (9MB) distro named [Tiny Core, Core edition][4] and
customize that to boot right into our static build of Vim.

...

- **Update 22-04-2023:** I've figured out [how to boot to Vi bare metal][9], no operating system required!

 ... i wander if the method used is jart/cosmopolitan !?

[gadget42]

as of 20231202-1000am-cdt-usa https://raymii.org/s/ and https://raymii.org/s/blog/Vim_as_PID_1_Boot_to_Vim.txt are working in fly-over-country-usa.

20231202-1005am-cdt-usa-modified: removed attachment after observing @mocore already attached.