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  • (Score: 2) by dltaylor on Saturday December 14 2019, @11:20AM

    by dltaylor (4693) on Saturday December 14 2019, @11:20AM (#932003)

    Wrote a Sun boot ROM "back in the day". As a fan of algebraic-style calculators, I was glad to be familiar enough with HPs to use one when needed. Dealing with all of the arithmetic for an SCSI interface in Fcode was an interesting experience.

    The driver, itself, wasn't too difficult once I stopped trying to write "C" in Fcode and began to think again in FORTH. Used to be a 6502 with an embedded FORTH interpreter, which is where I learned the language.

    Loved the Fcode ideal "write once, run pretty much anywhere". Better than Java, IMO'

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