[OpenBIOS] INFO: How to contribute to OpenBIOS

[Charles Esson]

> A FORTH TCP stack .. very interesting. Charles I don't
> remember what is COLDFORTH and I am not able to find
> references about COLDFORTH on the net. Is it a Forth-based
> board (stack processor)?

I am using the COLDFIRE processor, so I called it COLDFORTH ( not very
imaginative), 90+% is written in FORTH, assembler is restricted to the base word
set, with a little in the scheduler, which is pre-emtive. All the interrupt code is
in FORTH also.

It is a subroutine threaded FORTH ( needed if your going to write as much as
possible in FORTH).

The project was started because MOTOROLA stopped producing the 68K, our original OS
was mostly written in Assembler I didn't want to make that mistake again.

It is a self reproducing system so it is built using a cross compiler, in the long
term I plan on porting the xcompiler to G forth.

I intend to put up a WEB site and CVS server next month, you can currently look at
the code with a web browser at: 203.87.14.203


> However, there is an ongoing Forth OS project released
> under the GPL, currently based on Intel x86 architecture,
> with which it would be possible exchange ideas and code
> (Forth and Assembly); an exchange beneficial, I think,
> for OpenBIOS also. It's "Retro/Forth OS" project:

I did not know about it.

>
>
> - http://retro.tunes.org/
>
> Charles and Niklas are there URLs for your projects?
> Niklas what's the license of your BIOS?
>
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> Massimo Dentico
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