Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:36:23 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels Message-ID: <199810301936.LAA01533@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:37:20 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810302034120.25812-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> 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
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