Sorry, this part of the thread is becoming more and more off-topic ... is there a dragonfly-chat group this could be moved to?
Bill Hacker wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > *snip* (evidence that senility is wasted on the aged...) > > > so you can't implement it in Forth. > > nineteen NINETY 7/8 ??? I'm confused ... How does that remark relate to the line that you quoted? Anyway: Yes, Mike Smith started to integrate FICL into the boot loader in 1997/98. If you don't believe me, you can easily look it up in the CVS repository. > IIRC, Chuck had ported FORTH to over a dozen machine/CPU architectures > before the *1970's* were out. Sure, but what does that have to do with the boot loader? > Sun didn't pick it just 'coz it fit into an affordable chip. They picked > it because it could do everything they needed to have done, and UNLIKE > hand-generated machine-code, was already incredibly portable. Of course they needed something portable that could be easily scripted. Otherwise they wouldn't have bothered to put _any_ language into OpenBoot. And among the choices at that time (1988), Forth was pretty much the only candidate. > D'you have any idea what a Sun workstation cost in relative terms of the > day? Yes, I do. I'm not as young as you seem to think, unfortunately. :-) (I'm sorry if I misunderstood parts of your postings. Sometimes your postings are a bit difficult to read, but that's probably because I'm not a native English speaker.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd
