Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Nov 1998 07:07:01 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: FreeBSD may go with a Forth bootloader |
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Rick Hohensee wrote:
> Perhaps a more traditional directly threaded Forth implementation would > have been more efficient but Ficl seems to be an acceptable compromise > for now and will be easy to port to Alpha as well. Just getting Forth > averse programmers onboard was a fair hassle so we're happy that a > consensus seems to have been reached WRT Forth's viability for this > application.
Huh? What's that new in using Forth for bootloaders? Sun did for ages. OpenPROM _is_ Forth bootloader.
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