11 Dec
2008
11 Dec
'08
12:37 p.m.
Another place where Forth has been used: several
popular workstations
use it for their bootloaders. Sun does (or did) and I think Apple
does too. At least I once got an "ok" prompt when I powered up a very
confused Power Mac... and it answered like Forth interactive mode.
That's OpenFirmware. I'm sure Al Kossow can tell you oodles about that :)
Every PCI-based Power Macintosh up to and through the G5 has it.
My OLPC XO-1 also has OpenFirmware and responds to Forth.
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