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by 0xdeadbeefbabe 3528 days ago
Forth was practical when it was invented though.
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PeCaN 3528 days ago
Still is practical, OpenBoot/OpenFirmware is still what boots big IBM POWER servers. Not sure if Oracle still uses it but Sun did.

OpenBoot is basically like UEFI but less complex and written in a Forth dialect. It's quite cool.

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