Re: announcement of minimal binary boot (mb2) with indirection table forth

[Tobias Platen <guix@platen-software.de>]

On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 22:54 +0100, Stefan Karrmann wrote:
> for octal keyboard input on x86:             32 octets (!)
>   - for octal uninitialized serial input on x86: 34 octets
>   - for octal initialized serial input on x86:   41 octets
>   - for octal linux input on x86:                48 octets
> 
>   - for octet keyboard input on x86:             18 octets
>     This make sense, if we use the alt numpad input method.
> 
> For those, who don't regard octal encoded octets as real source code,
> I
> provide a second binary seed which implements a forth nucleus. I call
> it
> itf or indirection table forth.
> The sizes for this interpreter are much bigger than the sizes of the
> monitors but still small in comparision to a boot sector (512
> octets):
That looks interesting, I have been thinking about something similar
for the Rasperry PI GPU, which has been reverse engineered.

Tobias