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Date:      Mon, 02 Nov 1998 04:37:01 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels 
Message-ID:  <24082.910010221@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Nov 1998 17:31:51 PST." <199811020131.RAA07047@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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> Ok.  Should I commit my working version so that we have a central place 
> to perform the strip-down and integration?

Sounds good to me.

> Again, being not much of a Forth head it's not clear whether we should 
> keep all of the compiled-in functionality and just strip the things 
> that can be reloaded at runtime.

I think we should strip pretty much anything that can't be expressed
in high level forth.  Now that I've found my 4th roadmap URL again, I
can look at some of the minimalist forths and grab or reference their
HLL implementations of various words from the forth83 spec.

> I hope not. 8)  I'm all in favour of extension languages but I'm still 
> in two minds about whether Forth is going to be the right one for this 
> job.

Given the space constraints, one has to wonder whether you have any
choice. :-) It would be easy enough to add some simple conditional
expression parsing to the existing tiny interpreter, but that wouldn't
be anywhere near as flexible.

- Jordan

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