From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 30 11:20:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14808 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14802 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01422; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:18:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810301918.LAA01422@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:18:53 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:18:56 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > How many people would be interested in labels and conditional branches, > > > > for example? > > > > > > Probably quite a few, but then you get into the predictable debate > > > of "why not just add atlast to the loader? It's only 7K!" :-) > > > > Actually, it's about 45k. I've been looking at all sorts of small > > script interpreters; there doesn't seem to be much in the "useful" > > category under about 40k, and that's too big for the Alpha at the > > moment. > > There are Forth implementations for x86 which take around 8kB. These It needs to be portable. I haven't seen a decent portable Forth under about 40k. Atlast isn't very decent. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message