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Re: [tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)] Re: Parsing of Config files (was Re: GRUB installation thoughts)

>>>>> Marius Vollmer writes:

 MV> [ The guys are talking about GRUB, which is the Grand Unified
 MV> Boot Loader that is being used for loading the Mach kernel at the
 MV> lowest level.  I can't believe they are serious, somehow...  ]

GRUB isn't really a bootloader so much as it is an extension of the PC
BIOS to make it resemble fully-featured monitors that are found on
more advanced machines.

SPARC machines (among others) have FORTH interpreters built into their
BIOS.  What is unusual about a BIOS that has a builtin Scheme
interpreter?

GRUB is already 34k of protected-mode code.  Adding a Scheme
interpreter would cost some space, but would also simplify and reduce
the existing script-parsing code.

As I said in my reply to Thomas' message: I can dream, can't I. ;)

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