2021-10-29 09:49:37 <Zarutian_HTC> informal short poll: i/o, special instructions or memory address mapped?
2021-10-29 11:12:56 <crc         > in my latest vm, i/o has special instructions, can trigger interrupts, and has a small amount of reserved memory for each device to use as memory mapped; so all of the above?
2021-10-29 12:16:47 <imode       > special instructions. easier I/O model and you don't complect the idea of memory access and I/O.
2021-10-29 12:23:20 <joe9        > is there a forth that reads from the keyboard and writes to the vga screen directly? without going through stdin and stdout.
2021-10-29 12:23:41 <joe9        > I need a forth interpreter that is just above the bios boot layer.
2021-10-29 12:27:24 <imode       > openfirmware?
2021-10-29 12:27:26 <imode       > 
ACTION shrugs.

2021-10-29 12:27:42 <joe9        > ok, thanks.
2021-10-29 12:31:19 <lispmacs[work]> joe9: there have been several "bare-metal" forth projects. e.g. https://librehacker.com/2020/11/25/byok-bare-metal-forth/
2021-10-29 12:31:31 <joe9        > ok, thanks
2021-10-29 12:31:41 <joe9        > openfirmware is huge.
2021-10-29 23:50:10 <Zarutian_HTC> 
ACTION sees the news about Facebook rebranding itself as Meta which he guesses is short for Metazised Internet Cancer

2021-10-29 23:53:55 <Zarutian_HTC> METAstasized*