Re: [OpenBIOS] [PATCH 10/10] Adding filll Forth primitive

[Tarl Neustaedter]

On 2011-Aug-15 22:04 , William Hahne wrote:
> [...] This suggests that it may be an non-standard addition by Apple. You
> are right about the inconsistency. [...]

I will comment that back when 1275 was still active, we noted that 
Apple's implementation had sufficiently diverged from Sun's, Firmworks 
and IBM's implementations (and the standard) that PCI card vendors who 
did FCode ended up shipping two different versions - an Apple version 
and a Sun version.

I just mention this in terms of being careful not to take Apple's 
implementation as a reference standard.

[PATCH 10/10] Adding filll Forth primitive

[William Hahne]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Tarl Neustaedter  wrote:
> I will comment that back when 1275 was still active, we noted that Apple's
> implementation had sufficiently diverged from Sun's, Firmworks and IBM's
> implementations (and the standard) that PCI card vendors who did FCode ended
> up shipping two different versions - an Apple version and a Sun version.
>
> I just mention this in terms of being careful not to take Apple's
> implementation as a reference standard.

Well, the point of these patches is to allow Mac OS to be booted from
OpenBIOS. So actually in this case using Apple's implementation as a
reference is exactly what should be done.

William Hahne
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