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Back in the day, iirc sun workstations booted into forth as a rommed boot-monitor for hw diagnostics. Is forth around anymore in practical use ?
by bwfan123 1y ago
Back in the day, iirc sun workstations booted into forth as a rommed boot-monitor for hw diagnostics. Is forth around anymore in practical use ?
- throwaway71271 1y agowell there is https://collapseos.org/ https://collapseos.org/ :)
- packetlost 1y agoI recall a RedoxOS developer mentioning they were using a FORTH in the bootloader or some other very low level piece of that project. FORTH is the type of thing that probably exists all over the place but it's so deep and arcane that you would never know it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoLast I looked FreeBSD was using FORTH in their bootloader
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- Jtsummers 1y agoOpen Firmware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware OpenBOOT: https://openfirmware.info/OpenBOOT https://openfirmware.info/OpenBOOT That second link has a link to a git repository and you can see the forth code there.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoThe original author of (that first implementation of) Open Firmware, Mitch Bradley[1], is still active on GitHub and in particular in Forth-specific discussions, by the way. [1] https://github.com/mitchbradley https://github.com/mitchbradley
- adastra22 1y agoBitcoin’s script language for smart contracts / spend conditions is Forth.