[TUHS] forth on early unix

[Phillip Harbison via TUHS]

Dave Horsfall via TUHS wrote:
> 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 :-)

Wasn't Open Firmware based on Forth? I recall running into it when
working with MkLinux.

-- 
Phil Harbison