sbcl VS openfirmware

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sbcl

Mirror of Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)'s official repository (by sbcl)
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openfirmware

OpenFirmware as used on OLPC (and elsewhere) (by openbios)
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sbcl openfirmware
59 6
1,774 96
0.6% -
9.9 0.0
about 15 hours ago over 8 years ago
Common Lisp Forth
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sbcl

Posts with mentions or reviews of sbcl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.

openfirmware

Posts with mentions or reviews of openfirmware. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-20.
  • Thinking Forth
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2022
    OpenFirmware has some code for paging! ;)

    purpose: Set up page tables and turn on paging

    https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware/blob/master/cpu/x86...

  • Hypertext '87 (1987) [pdf]
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2021
    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. The FORTH I used was Mitch Bradley's "Sun Forth", which evolved into OpenFirmware, and which was once defined by an IEEE standard, "IEEE 1275-1994", but it was withdrawn because the standard was not reaffirmed: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

    >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which was not reaffirmed by the Open Firmware Working Group (OFWG) since 1998 and has therefore been officially withdrawn by IEEE.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:

    https://github.com/openbios

    https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware

    https://openfirmware.info

    https://openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS

  • What to Learn
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2021
  • Moving Forth (1993)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2021
    Some Forth systems even have a "metacompiler" that lets one FORTH system compile another FORTH system for the same or different CPU, word size, byte order, threading model, etc, from the same source code!

    OpenFirmware (the FORTH burnt into boot roms of SPARC, PowerPC, OLPC, and other systems) is a great example:

    openfirmware/forth/kernel/metacompile.fth

    https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware/blob/d5cc657ce81c0f...

  • PostScript Language Reference [pdf]
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sbcl and openfirmware you can also consider the following projects:

ccl - Clozure Common Lisp

forth - Porting Richard Jones' FORTH to ARM

abcl - Armed Bear Common Lisp <git+https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/> <--> <svn+https://abcl.org/svn> Bridge

qpdf - QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer

sb-simd - A convenient SIMD interface for SBCL.

maths132-notes - Notes I wrote for Lee White's Maths 132 Differential Equations course, University of Melbourne, 1995-96

BQN - An APL-like programming language. Self-hosted!

cl-ppcre - Common Lisp regular expression library

maiko - Medley Interlisp virtual machine

seed7 - Source code of Seed7

common-lisp-jupyter - A Common Lisp kernel for Jupyter along with a library for building Jupyter kernels.

lisp-xl - Common Lisp Microsoft XLSX (Microsoft Excel) loader for arbitrarily-sized / big-size files

sbcl vs ccl openfirmware vs forth sbcl vs abcl openfirmware vs qpdf sbcl vs sb-simd openfirmware vs maths132-notes sbcl vs BQN sbcl vs cl-ppcre sbcl vs maiko sbcl vs seed7 sbcl vs common-lisp-jupyter sbcl vs lisp-xl