[TUHS] forth on early unix

[Stuff Received via TUHS]

On 2025-09-22 09:34, Phillip Harbison via TUHS wrote:
> 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.

https://github.com/openbios/openboot (and other tidbits in the same repo).

S.