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Date:      Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:18:01 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels 
Message-ID:  <199811032118.NAA00471@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Nov 1998 16:16:46 %2B0100." <3.0.5.32.19981103161646.0097a780@mail.scancall.no> 

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> >There would be little trouble including the FICL Forth engine in the 
> >kernel; I had actually considered the not insubstantial advantages to 
> >doing this (most importantly the ability to attach Forth to modules to 
> >do specialised load/unload operations), but I suspect that this will be 
> >viewed too much like heresy by many people.
> 
> Anything that helps increase flexibility is good, if it doesn't bring
> excessive bloat with it. From what I've heard so far, this would be a good
> idea. Alternately, might it not be possible to add an option for it?

Making it optional would make it worthless; if it's to be useful for 
anything it needs to be a standard component.  I'm by no means sure 
that it should.

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