17 Oct
2017
17 Oct
'17
4:30 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:47:53PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
Don Hopkins <don(a)DonHopkins.com> wrote:
You and me both. I always thought forth was a little weird, not bad
weird, just weird. But I had worked on a forth system before, done
some programming in it, so I could deal.
But when I met EFI I yearned for the good old forth boot proms :(
My guess is that Mitch wanted too much money for Intel to go for it,
Intel is super super cheap.
I love the OpenFirmware ???L1-A Forth??? built into SparcStations. It has
the ???SEE??? word, that decompiles FORTH words and disassembles FORTH
primitives. You can start with ???SEE SEE???, and then recursively climb
down and see each of the words and primitives that defines it, or
anything else!
Nice. OpenFirmware was also used in PowerMacs and in IBM POWER systems.
I thought it was a great shame that Intel didn't adopt OpenFirmware but
instead created EFI.