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Thank you for sharing all these wonderful stuff. Is there a specification of the Forth dialect used in NeWS? Why not use postscript for scripting too?

• DonHopkins 5y ago
  NeWS didn't use FORTH. But HyperTIES used both FORTH and NeWS because there were a lot of things that FORTH could do that NeWS couldn't, like link and call C code directly. The FORTH I used was Mitch Bradley's "Sun Forth", aka "Forthmacs" (with the Jove ersatz Emacs editor by Jonathan Payne built in), which eventually evolved into OpenFirmware, and which was once defined by an IEEE standard, "IEEE 1275-1994", but it was withdrawn because the standard was not reaffirmed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware >Open Firmware is described by IEEE standard IEEE 1275-1994, which was not reaffirmed by the Open Firmware Working Group (OFWG) since 1998 and has therefore been officially withdrawn by IEEE. It's still alive and maintained and used for many things. Here's the source code, called OpenBIOS, as well as some other implementations and versions: https://github.com/openbios https://github.com/openbios https://github.com/openbios/openbios https://github.com/openbios/openbios https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware https://github.com/openbios/openboot https://github.com/openbios/openboot https://github.com/openbios/smartfirmware https://github.com/openbios/smartfirmware https://openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS https://openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS https://openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware https://openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware Also there's also Mitch's very portable "cforth": https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth https://github.com/MitchBradley/cforth There's even an Open Firmware Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Wyvb9GotM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Wyvb9GotM