Historical recreation/restoration of original Forth on the IBM 1130

Re:Historical recreation/restoration of original Forth on th... by agapon on Sunday March 18, 2018 @11:29AM (#16612380)

FreeBSD uses Forth as a scripting language of its boot chain. illumos had recently started using the same boot chain.

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Re:Historical recreation/restoration of original Forth on th... by sedachv on Sunday March 18, 2018 @07:44PM (#16615212)

They are replacing it with a Lua-scripted bootloader: https://readlist.com/lists/freebsd.org/freebsd-current/25/12...

Apparently one of the "features" motivating the decision to use Lua is "it's interpreter is very small (~240 KB)," which sounds like a dumb joke when you consider Forth's footprint.

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Re:Historical recreation/restoration of original Forth on th... by krallja on Sunday March 18, 2018 @11:34AM (#16612401)

I remember PowerPC Macs using Open Firmware, which had a Forth REPL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

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