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

William Hahne will07c5 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 05:16:52 CEST 2011


On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Tarl Neustaedter <tarl-b2 at tarl.net> 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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