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[Jordan Henderson]

> From: marcus@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu (Marcus G. Daniels)
> 
> JH> Many of today's machines (Sparcs, PowerPCs, some PCI-bus
                                                  ^^^^
> JH> machines) come with a full ANSI Forth core in the OpenBoot
> JH> Firmware.  There will be for these machines complete low level
> JH> diagnostics and some primitive kind of device driver available for
> JH> all supported devices.  Those machines without OpenBoot Firmware
> JH> could be made to quickly load an ANSI Forth core.
> 
> Can you suggest any more info on this?  altavista turns up 
> http://www.firmworks.com and some info from Sun. 
> The hardware list at Firmworks was pretty short w.r.t. PCI.

Yes, as I said above, I knew there were some PCI machines that use
OpenBoot, but I don't think there are very many.  We would have to 
bring up our own Forth on these.