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I had the dev board before there was a keyboard, or screen. It had some kind of very different Python driven GUI. My task was to make Wine run on it, but I neve

I had the dev board before there was a keyboard, or screen. It had some kind of very different Python driven GUI. My task was to make Wine run on it, but I never got too far. First, I never spent enough time on it, but it also had some kind of very weird boot loader I never quite figured out. I think it had some kind of lock or signature scheme, which was very odd at the time. (When PCs were PCs and had BIOS, not EFI.)

messe 7y ago
I believe the firmware was OpenFirmware, which is FORTH based and actually rather nice.
- DonHopkins 7y ago
  That's right! It's the Cadillac of Forth systems, with electric windows, cruise control, luxurious Corinthian Leather upholstery, a retargeting metacompiler, and emacs key bindings for command line and history editing. https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware Mitch Bradley also made a great Forth system implemented in C, which he actively maintains (last updated 18 hours ago!): https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth See my other post about Forth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21049568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21049568