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>>>>> 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. ;) -- Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@fig.org> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) [Unfortunately, www.fig.org is broken. Please stay tuned for details.]