Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:17:09 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <38DAB405.C57FD8F4@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003231640010.12114-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote:
>
> On i386 machines this is usually something lame like:
> NO ROM BASIC
> SYSTEM HALTED
> despite the fact that no machine has included a ROM BASIC since the last
> of the IBM PS/2 386s came out. However most of the BIOSes until *very*
> recently still contained code that would check for a ROM BASIC after
> searching the entire drive list and try booting from that. Now if only
> we could convince them to put that back in except have it look for a
> forth interpreter in ROM.
Nah, that's the wrong approach. The right approach is for that BIOS *be*
written in Forth to begin with.
OpenBoot, anyone? :-)
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