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

[Elliott Chapin]

Go to http://www.firmworks.com/ and ask Mitch Bradley (and see if it would 
be OK to cc his reply to this group). His work is at the root of all this. 
While your at it check out his resume. His reasons may have something to do 
with algorithmic conveniences. If you by any chance are or care to get 
acquainted with Forth take a look at how square brackets are used; that 
might give you an idea about why he used Forth.

At 05:00 PM 10/6/03, you wrote:
>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 :)
> > >


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