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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 d0835c674b FORTH: KEY-EVENT unified keyboard interface, closes 4.3.5-4.3.5f (item 4.3.5f)
Punch list §25 item 4.3.5f complete. Keyboard-input slice done.

New KEY-EVENT ( -- keycode pressed -1 | 0 ) converges amd64's i8042,
riscv64's and aarch64's virtio-keyboard-pci behind one shape. Translation
needed is minimal: XT Set-1 make codes and Linux input keycodes are
numerically identical across the standard 84-key block (a documented
historical property of the Linux input subsystem, confirmed against this
host's own headers and this tree's own prior live observations), so amd64
needs two lines, riscv64/aarch64 need none. Verified live with a real
keypress on all three architectures: identical "-1 1 30" output everywhere.
Three-arch acceptance boot clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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capsules/

FORTH personality files loaded by the VM at boot. A capsule is an immutable, content-addressed payload; its XXHash64 hash is its identity. Any mutation changes the hash and the birth protocol rejects the image.

Key files

File Type Purpose
init.4th (m) MAMA_INIT Default Mama VM personality — loaded at LBN 2048
ACL.4th user Word-level ACL system; self-activating at boot
zuse.4th user Bootstrap superuser; loaded by ACL.4th
doe.4th user DoE workload words (EXEC-DOE) — opt-in
init-0.4thinit-9.4th (p) Numbered personality variants
init-l8-*.4th (p) L8 Jacquard mode variants (stable/volatile/diverse/temporal/transition/omni)
hermes/init.4th (p) Hermes baby VM personality
artemis/init.4th (p) Artemis baby VM personality

Block namespace

Block ranges are shared across all loaded capsules — collisions cause silent word-definition overwrites.

Range Owner
20482099 init.4th
21002199 doe.4th
30003999 workload capsules
4000+ user-defined (ACL.4th, zuse.4th, …)

Each block is limited to 1024 bytes. Verify with wc -c before committing.

See also