From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS} Running V8 ...
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:30:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171017143057.GX29793@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1710171245170.22527@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk>
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:47:53PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> Don Hopkins <don at 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.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-17 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-16 11:58 Doug McIlroy
2017-10-16 15:41 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-17 11:47 ` Tony Finch
2017-10-17 14:30 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-10-17 14:50 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-16 16:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-16 16:39 ` [TUHS} Running V8 ... [ really basic tools ] Jon Steinhart
2017-10-16 19:16 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-10-16 19:28 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-10-17 1:15 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-10-17 4:20 ` UNIX version 2*pi Don Hopkins
2017-10-17 6:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-17 18:23 ` Ron Natalie
2017-10-18 2:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-18 10:15 ` Ron Natalie
2017-10-16 16:38 ` [TUHS} Running V8 Will Senn
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