4. Call INTERPRET In other words, BOOT interprets bytes directly following CURRENT as Forth source code. This code will typically initialize all subsystems and then call RDLN$. As soon as this is called, INTERPRET will begin reading from RDLN< which reads from KEY. In the "/emul" binaries, "HERE" is readjusted to "CURRENT @" so that we don't have to relocate compiled dicts. Note that in this context, the initialization code is fighting for space with HERE: New entries to the dict will overwrite that code! Also, because we're barebone, we can't have comments. This can lead to peculiar code in this area where we try to "waste" space in initialization code.