00:00:00 --- log: started forth/21.01.06 00:48:52 siraben: some BSDs have (or had) a forth interpreter in their boot loader. As for the EFI excuse, that was 100% political with excuses made up on the spot ex post facto on why they rejected OpenFirmware 00:49:14 What was the politician reason, licensing? 00:49:19 political* 00:50:13 "build our own" to protect their partners 00:52:07 I have a statement somewhere in my archives that Intel considered it a major downside of OpenFirmware that Phoenix and Award (back when they were still different companies) would have to compete in a market with existing incumbents. can't have that. 01:05:00 --- join: jedb_ joined #forth 01:07:29 --- quit: jedb (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) 01:17:25 --- join: jedb__ joined #forth 01:20:06 --- quit: jedb_ (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 01:47:45 siraben, that was the old Sun workstations. They went straight into a forth implementation although almost no one knew. 01:48:39 I think there is a video on 4ther youtube channel of someone running a sun workstation ROM in qemu 01:49:04 The prompt starts 'ok ', very snazzy 01:58:24 the sun thing is openfirmware, also used on PowerPC. openbios.org collects the various open source implementations 02:00:38 originally there was just OpenBIOS under GPL, eventually the major existing implementations were opened up, usually with a BSD license 03:21:02 --- quit: jimt[m] (Quit: Bridge terminating on SIGTERM) 03:21:03 --- quit: siraben (Quit: Bridge terminating on SIGTERM) 03:27:52 --- join: jimt[m] joined #forth 03:35:57 --- join: siraben joined #forth 05:04:45 --- join: jedb joined #forth 05:04:47 --- quit: jedb__ (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 05:05:12 https://github.com/codr7/alang 05:08:03 --- quit: dave0 (Quit: dave's not here) 05:08:32 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25652865 05:43:41 --- quit: Keshl (Remote host closed the connection) 05:44:03 --- join: Keshl joined #forth 07:01:50 --- join: f-a joined #forth 07:39:30 https://www.reuters.com/article/tenstorrent-tech/moves-former-intel-tesla-chip-exec-jim-keller-joins-artificial-intelligence-startup-idUSL1N2JG2I6 07:39:42 "Keller has been named president, chief technology officer and a board member of Tenstorrent Inc, a company founded in 2016 by Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Nvidia Corp veteran Ljubisa Bajic to create an AI chip that mimics some of the ways the human brain works to become more energy efficient than rival chips." 07:40:05 Is that not something like the greenarrays chip? 07:41:00 im guessing not at all 07:42:04 The greenarrays chip is more like what I'd expect than their chip is, looking at their block diagram 07:43:17 --- quit: f-a (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 07:47:32 does their block diagram have floating point units like a graphics card? 07:48:04 --- join: f-a joined #forth 09:36:34 --- join: Zarutian_HTC joined #forth 09:57:43 --- quit: f-a (Quit: leaving) 10:45:14 --- join: WickedShell joined #forth 10:46:19 --- quit: gravicappa (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) 10:47:59 --- join: gravicappa joined #forth 10:54:47 --- quit: Monev (Quit: FreeZNC - Visit us! Server: chat.freenode.net Channel: ##bnc4you) 11:03:00 --- quit: Zarutian_HTC (Remote host closed the connection) 12:31:44 --- join: Zarutian_HTC joined #forth 12:53:23 --- quit: gravicappa (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) 14:37:51 --- quit: _whitelogger (Remote host closed the connection) 14:40:49 --- join: _whitelogger joined #forth 15:11:38 --- quit: Zarutian_HTC (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 15:15:32 --- join: Zarutian_HTC joined #forth 16:56:24 --- quit: Zarutian_HTC (Quit: Bye) 18:43:01 --- join: boru` joined #forth 18:43:04 --- quit: boru (Disconnected by services) 18:43:06 --- nick: boru` -> boru 19:09:25 --- quit: cantstanya (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 19:12:10 --- join: cantstanya joined #forth 19:32:09 --- quit: WickedShell (Remote host closed the connection) 20:13:36 --- quit: sts-q (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) 20:16:16 --- quit: boru (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 20:28:10 --- join: sts-q joined #forth 20:40:00 --- join: dave0 joined #forth 20:48:49 --- join: boru joined #forth 21:09:24 --- join: gravicappa joined #forth 22:01:22 --- quit: dave0 (Quit: dave's not here) 22:03:01 --- quit: proteusguy (Remote host closed the connection) 22:04:50 --- join: proteusguy joined #forth 22:04:50 --- mode: ChanServ set +v proteusguy 23:59:59 --- log: ended forth/21.01.06