From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 30 12:34:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22512 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:34:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22500 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA05168; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:34:17 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA24638; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:34:16 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:34:16 -0700 Message-Id: <199810302034.NAA24638@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels In-Reply-To: <199810301848.KAA01266@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <17327.909773044@time.cdrom.com> <199810301848.KAA01266@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. What about Forth? (Cheap dig at Jordan :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message