Re: FreeBSD may go with a Forth bootloader

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 07:07:01 -0500 (EST)


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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