B.I.O.S. to lock out non-Windows code ?

[Justin Zygmont]

why not assembly?  I thought most bioses were written in that.


On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Elliott Chapin wrote:

> For general info on Forth go to www.forth.org.
> 
> At 02:24 PM 10/6/03, you wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:
> >
> > > I've always consider how the OpenBIOS people had intended to get around
> > > the highly architecure specific characteristics of the BIOS.  I suspect a
> > > minimalist abstraction layer and then everything else in Forth :)
> >
> >Why do you suspect this instead of reading on it (at the url I posted:
> >www.openbios.org).  They do indeed use Forth and the interpreter is 90%
> >implemented. You can download a copy and play with it. So the website
> >says.
> >
> >DRM is welcome imho if it will stop the flood of counterfeit copyware that
> >floods and destroys markets, and if it will cause the riaa etc to back off
> >from pressuring other uses of shared bandwidth. It is not welcome if it
> >locks the ability to use the machine for other things, such as writing
> >your own code/device driver or copying your own anniversary and wedding
> >DVDs and CDs (a real problem right now). In the way they want to do it now
> >DRM is not welcome, as it locks both.
> >
> >Peter
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