Re: Hello - and where to begin?

Ray St. Marie wrote:
> 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. :)
> 

Well ... I got it ... and GLColorForth. But neither one compiles. The 
"as" assembler is choking on the "push", "pop" and "call" op codes. So 
... off to Google. ;(