[TUHS] forth on early unix

Dave Horsfall via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Mon Sep 22 14:14:57 AEST 2025


On Sun, 21 Sep 2025, Larry McVoy via TUHS wrote:

> I'm still not a forth fan.  That said, the sun boot proms were in forth 
> and there was some pretty cool forth in there.  It knew the VM 
> structures, it knew sockets, it knew a lot.  I'm still not a forth fan 
> but it was useful.

The FreeBSD boot scripts are written in FORTH (for the early stages at
least).

Cute language, but then again I was also brought up on APL\360 :-)

-- Dave


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