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The FreeBSD bootloader (on several platforms, at least, including i386 and amd64) is written largely in a dialect of Forth called Ficl [1]. Perhaps GP got "For
by groovy2shoes 8y ago
The FreeBSD bootloader (on several platforms, at least, including i386 and amd64) is written largely in a dialect of Forth called Ficl [1]. Perhaps GP got "Forth" and "Fortran" mixed up?
Looks like the Forth loader is going to eventually be replaced by a Lua one, though [2].
[1]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/release/11.1.0/sys/boot/forth https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/release/11.1.0/sys/b...
[2]: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-February/068464.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-Feb...