Re: [colorforth] /. and the new bios

["Arthur W. Green" <goshawk@xxxxxxx>]

Albert van der Horst <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Nevertheless it is exciting and good news. It is much easier
>to transform commented c into Forth than uncommented assembler.
>This opens the prospect of adding colorforth to the BIOS-rom,
>to be started with a special key stroke like ctrl-alt-F.

I am not so optimistic.

We are only drifting further away from the bare metal. Open Firmware, far
from being an impetus to the development of "alternative" operating
systems, instead succeeded in being more of a barrier.

-- Art



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