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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:36:23 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels 
Message-ID:  <199810301936.LAA01533@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:37:20 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810302034120.25812-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> 

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> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It needs to be portable.  I haven't seen a decent portable Forth under 
> > about 40k.  Atlast isn't very decent.
> 
> Atlast is NOT Forth, and it's implementation leaves much to desire... Tell
> you somethin: please go to www.taygeta.com, and see some pretty, tiny
> Forth implementations in versions for 3-4 architectures. There are such.

Been there, done that.  The portable ones are all too big.  8)

Actually, ~40k doesn't bother me much, once we get the alpha issues 
sorted out.  But Forth is more intimidating than it needs to be; 
something with an sh-like syntax would be nicer.

(Yes, I agree that Forth would be more powerful.  Compromises...)

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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