From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:30:57 -0700 Subject: [TUHS} Running V8 ... In-Reply-To: References: <201710161158.v9GBweD4005539@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <891F89F0-051A-453E-8BFC-9AC99A038C73@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20171017143057.GX29793@mcvoy.com> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:47:53PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > Don Hopkins 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.