Forth on x86

I know there are a few forth users here. So Im wondering what would happen if you installed forth on an x86 PC with no operating system, how much of forth could you run? I know forth is used to test a lot of embedded systems, but I dont understand how you can work with forth if you dont have graphics drivers for using a keyboard and screen as well as other IO drivers like you have in C libaries. What is the minimum to get a working forth system going?

I have no idea!

I/O is a BIOS thing at that level. Don't worry about it.

>>3
Only if you have a BIOS that provides I/O.

>>4
Are you shitting me? That feature won't appear for another 12 years.

>>5
Is your clock reading the Unix epoch or something?

>>3-6
You mena [b]B[b]asic I/O System?

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Depends on the machine, and if you program the BIOS with a Forth compilet for you I/O of your peripherals. The main question is, will you make your BIOS, or use one from another. Might as well invite you to coreboot.org. Though we use C and asm.

>>3
I thought protected mode & long mode doesn't support BIOS routines so you have to use obscure port listings and write to the buffer starting at (char*)0xb8000 and other stupid shit.

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindforth.txt

is artificial intelligence in English; German Wotan AI is

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/DeKi.txt

with the German Artificial Intelligence User Manual at

http://www.schn.org/~mentifex/DeKiUser.html

OLPC XO has openfirmware. Which is forth. Google some of the shit Luke Gorrie was playing around with.
I've no personal experiences. At all.