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Re: Scripting DDB in Forth?



> On May 2, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2 May 2016, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> Or we can port real OF perhaps?  OpenBIOS is GPLv2, but since it will
>> not be part of the kernel, that's not an issue.  Also, Sun did release
>> OpenBOOT under BSD'ish license, if you want to be a purist about the
>> licensing and don't mind doing extra work.
> 
> OpenBOOT is very SPARC-centric.  There's lots of SPARC assembly code 
> throughout.

My exposure to Forth is much longer ago, when I worked with FIG-Forth on a PDP11.  If you want an unencumbered and very portable implementation, that's a good starting point; it's in the public domain.

	paul



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