17 Oct
2017
17 Oct
'17
1:47 p.m.
Don Hopkins <don(a)DonHopkins.com> wrote:
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.
Tony.
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