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Re: announcement of minimal binary boot (mb2) with indirection table for
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Tobias Platen |
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Re: announcement of minimal binary boot (mb2) with indirection table forth |
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Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:56:25 +0100 |
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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