On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:46:14 +0000 (UTC), Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>> was too late). A machine designed to be run on Forth would have been >> >>> unbelievably powerful from the late 70s to the mid 90s (it would be >> >>> more painful now than the x86 legacy, but still). > >A small data point here is that Sun still use Forth in their >Sparc workstations. Their system prompt is really a Forth >interpreter... I don;t know where the interpreter resides, >presumably not in Sparc since its a RISC but interesting that >they still use it. (Or they did last time I used a >Sparc - 4 years ago?) > >Alan G. >Author of the Learn to Program website >http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld It was still there three years ago. While debugging some Sun based hardware I tried playing with it after it crashed. Forth was still there. It certainly is useful for a hardware independent bios, but I was making the point it would be good for general purpose. I suspect that it would quickly run up against memory limitations and would go no faster than the machine driving the memory market (with a possible last gasp when Rambus came online). Scott Robinson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
