Re: Assembler or machinecode. Was Re: [colorforth] New Linux 4word

Delurking...

I'll go for the simple boot sector.  And if you can throw in pointers to
documentation on how to do a boot sector, and how to deal with modern hard
drives at the lowest level, I'd be interested in that as well.  I don't have
the first clue on where to go seriously looking for that stuff for current
generation hardware.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Walton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [colorforth] Assembler or machinecode. Was Re: [colorforth] New
Linux 4word


On 4/13/05, Ray St. Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/10/05, Chris Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Haha, very funny Ray :)
>
> Thank you, I read it again and thought it came off as serious
> flippant. Glad the humor shown thru. I'm only ever hahaSerious.
>
> > You know, I've written a lot of bootsectors and I'd be willing to
> > write one thats a bit less selective about the hardware, and is a
> > drop-in replacement for the colorforth one.(I've done the same for
> > RetroForth 8 Native)
>
> Yes, I do know that you are brilliant, the reason i _know_ that i'm
> atleast 10 iQ points behind the group AND can't wait to read your
> code. :)

Why thank you for the wonderful compliment, Sir!

I talked to mark slicker and I want to ask a question. Would you
rather see an elaborate bootsector written in Forth, or a simple
bootsector which merely injects binary code that just enters protected
mode right away, then passing control to code that loads from the
disk, etc?

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