Re: Z80 CP/M Forth & loading code from disk

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Udo Munk wrote:


[snip]

> When Forth is implemented on top of another OS you usually have 2
choices,
> using raw devices of the machine, or use the filesystem of the host OS.
In
> the later case the blocks just go into a file, yes. If you work in Forth
> that all doesn't matter because you just use screens or blocks, wherever
> and however they are stored. If one uses blocks on a disk device, one
> can't handle this disk with the host OS anymore, and that is what seems
to
> confuse people somehow.
>
> Udo Munk

Can you, for example, have 1 HDD for freeBSD and 1 HDD for a native Forth
and then use a boot manager? Will a native Forth "play nice" with a boot
manager?
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