From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2002-12-06T19:03:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ratlast 0.1 -- embedded FORTH in Ruby


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Harry Ohlsen (harryo@zip.com.au) wrote:

> I seem to recall reading a rumour that the boot code for Sun
> workstations was written in FORTH, but never found out whether that
> was true.
>=20
> H.

LOADER(8)               FreeBSD System Manager's Manual              LOADER=
(8)
NAME
     loader - kernel bootstrapping final stage

DESCRIPTION
     The program called loader is the final stage of FreeBSD's kernel boot-
     strapping process.  On IA32 (i386) architectures, it is a BTX client. =
 It
     is linked statically to libstand(3) and usually located in the directo=
ry
     /boot.

     It provides a scripting language that can be used to automate tasks, do
     pre-configuration or assist in recovery procedures.  This scripting la=
n-
     guage is roughly divided in two main components.  The smaller one is a
     set of commands designed for direct use by the casual user, called
     "builtin commands" for historical reasons.  The main drive behind these
     commands is user-friendlyness.  The bigger component is an ANS Forth c=
om-
     patible Forth interpreter based on ficl, by John Sadler.
                   =20

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