[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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