[TUHS} Running V8 ...
Tony Finch
dot at dotat.at
Tue Oct 17 21:47:53 AEST 2017
Don Hopkins <don at DonHopkins.com> wrote:
>
> I love the OpenFirmware “L1-A Forth” built into SparcStations. It has
> the “SEE” word, that decompiles FORTH words and disassembles FORTH
> primitives. You can start with “SEE SEE”, and then recursively climb
> down and see each of the words and primitives that defines it, or
> anything else!
Nice. OpenFirmware was also used in PowerMacs and in IBM POWER systems.
I thought it was a great shame that Intel didn't adopt OpenFirmware but
instead created EFI.
Tony.
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