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[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "JH" == Jordan Henderson <jordan@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> writes:

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.

JH> Including threading support might be tricky in any portable way.

Uh oh, already the terminology is overloaded.  ;)