Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:18:56 -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: <199810301918.LAA01422@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:18:53 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810302004200.25812-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> 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
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