Free BIOS (was Resources for DOS (was: DOS Compatable OS))

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

"9000 VAX" said:
 
> 
> I think the SUN computers have BIOS written in forth.. but I could be wrong.

You're thinking of Open Firmware - a superset of ANS-Standard Forth used for
detecting and setting up the hardware etc. on Sun, Apple and some IBM 
machines.  It can be accessed from the console as well, allowing you to probe 
and set up hardware manually should you need to, or as a normal Forth of 
course...

Apple are apparently dropping it from the upcoming Intel machines - pity.


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Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

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