Re: Hello - and where to begin?
"Ray St. Marie" <[email protected]>
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On Jan 20, 2008 5:57 PM, Gwenhwyfaer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/01/2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]> wrote: > > The OLPC project was really very firm on keeping the number of > > programming languages to a bare minimum, namely Python, Squeak Smalltalk > > and Open Firmware Forth. Of course with Mitch Bradley representing Forth > > and Alan Kay representing Smalltalk both senior members of the OLPC > > team, I wouldn't expect anything else. But if you have the "Linux port" > > of the Open Firmware Forth on the machine already, and can install > > gForth out of the Fedora repositories, is there a place for colorforth? > > Wouldn't Open Firmware be in the OLPC at the very lowest level, before > Linux has even had a chance to wake itself up? In which case, the OLPC > is arguably already a dedicated Forth box, from the second one > switches it on... You don't get ring 0 access with out a special ( easy to obtain but one would have to enter a special) key. This is obviously to protect the 'mother' OS and the machine. colorForth boot process may have to handle that situation. > > - I was going to say Xcolorforth, but it looks as though Mark > Slicker's website has gone away; anyone still have a copy? (hmm. Isn't > this where we came in...?) > http://colorforthray.info/XcolorForth.tar.gz Smiles. :) -- Raymond St. Marie ii,