> Sun’s bootloader environment from that period was called OpenBoot, and consisted of a FORTH interpreter, from which you can interrogate the device tree and pretty much do whatever you want.
This sounds interesting. I have read quite a few FORTH posts on HN but never gave the thing a look. It is really different than anything I have looked at. For example, for functional languages I never got pass Scheme's ' symbol, but at least I get most of the syntax. FORTH really is another level.
This sounds interesting. I have read quite a few FORTH posts on HN but never gave the thing a look. It is really different than anything I have looked at. For example, for functional languages I never got pass Scheme's ' symbol, but at least I get most of the syntax. FORTH really is another level.