LLL: bootstrap code

Mike Prince mprince@crl.com
Tue, 1 Nov 1994 12:26:26 -0800 (PST)



On Tue, 1 Nov 1994, Francois-Rene Rideau wrote:

> I prefer andy's way: write first a threaded interpreter for the virtual
> machine in the target architecture's assembly (which is C for POSIX systems :)
> This should be very small.
> Then, let the LLL extend itself (a la FORTH), and write all the OS in LLL.
> When the system will run, it is still time to optimize the LLL implementation.

I'm already fiddling with some code to do that.  That's exactly what I'd 
like to do, get an picokernel/interpreter going to test our OS ideas and 
begin writing the LLL low level OS stuff.

Mike