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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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