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openfirmware and forth

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jhu

Lifer
is there a reason that openfirmware has a forth interface? how about a bash interface instead? i just obtained a beige powermac g3 and find it nifty playing with openfirmware. anyone have links to interesting programs? i think i heard of someone writing an apple ii emulator in forth running in openfirmware but i can't find it.
 
I played with Forth just a little arround 1977 as it was available as a plug in cartridge for Atari computers. I recall it was very popular with astronomers so you might want to try an astronomy site.
 
Forth requires a very tiny interpreter. We used Forth on satellite control systems in the late 1970s, because an interpreter + forth code was denser than assembly language.

Forth lives today mostly at "postscript", which is froth plus printer specific functions.
 
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