From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 30 11:37:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17092 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:37:48 -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 LAA17081 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:37:45 -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 LAA01533; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:36:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810301936.LAA01533@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 20:37:20 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:36:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > It needs to be portable. I haven't seen a decent portable Forth under > > about 40k. Atlast isn't very decent. > > Atlast is NOT Forth, and it's implementation leaves much to desire... Tell > you somethin: please go to www.taygeta.com, and see some pretty, tiny > Forth implementations in versions for 3-4 architectures. There are such. Been there, done that. The portable ones are all too big. 8) Actually, ~40k doesn't bother me much, once we get the alpha issues sorted out. But Forth is more intimidating than it needs to be; something with an sh-like syntax would be nicer. (Yes, I agree that Forth would be more powerful. Compromises...) -- \\ 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