"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote:
>
> On i386 machines this is usually something lame like:
> NO ROM BASIC
> SYSTEM HALTED
> despite the fact that no machine has included a ROM BASIC since the last
> of the IBM PS/2 386s came out. However most of the BIOSes until *very*
> recently still contained code that would check for a ROM BASIC after
> searching the entire drive list and try booting from that. Now if only
> we could convince them to put that back in except have it look for a
> forth interpreter in ROM.
Nah, that's the wrong approach. The right approach is for that BIOS *be*
written in Forth to begin with.
OpenBoot, anyone? :-)
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