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Re: Writing an ANS Forth

erat...@forth.com (Elizabeth D Rather) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:01:43 UT

...
There is a lot of this information in these docs, not so much on how to
write it, but a wealth of detail on what it does and how.
That's source for the compiler itself. You always get source for the
target. The major missing component for doing a new target is the
assembler, but designing a new assembler is a lot smaller task than

Re: Writing an ANS Forth

don.seg...@sbcglobal.net (Don Seglio) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:40:57 UT

This is interesting I downloaded Timbre from the Timbre site, and it
contained the Timbre executable and some sample macros and text
documenting some of the sample programs. I checked my saved download and
it's as I remembered. The Timbre site seems to be down but the Taygeta
file is totally different from what I downloaded before, looking at the

8080 Forth?

r...@regnirps.com (Charlie Springer) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:15:29 UT

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I was thinking that there were still plenty
of the old timers here who would still have their 8" CP/M systems running
occasionally. I don't have any way to get data from another medium onto the
8" floppies for the IMSAI. A simple serial boot loader put in from the front

Re: Writing an ANS Forth

stephen...@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:07:33 UT

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:12:52 -0500, Cecil Bayona
a) we don't have it already
b) other people will want it
If it's missing from our Forth and it's easily reusable (we can teach
you how to port), it could be interesting.
Stephen

Re: Writing an ANS Forth

r...@regnirps.com (Charlie Springer) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:04:26 UT

(in article
<91ea825c-b0d9-4ef7-a416-47c93 c9cb...@a1g2000hsb.googlegroup s.com>):
[link]
Yes also. Win32Forth is way cool.
-- Charlie Springer

Re: Intellasys vs XMOS

leon...@btinternet.com (Leon) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:33:07 UT

Thanks, Brad.
Stephen at MPE (he didn't write it) once gave me a single transputer
Forth to try on my hardware, it wasn't any faster than Forth on the
8086. I'll see if I can contact someone involved with tforth. I can't
see many people using an XMOS vesion of it, but it would be an
interesting thing to do.

Re: MindForth artificial intelligence lives forever.

kpc...@gmail.com (Kenneth) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:29:51 UT

<snip>
lol great story! Computer Science and chicks in one. Awesome

Re: Intellasys vs XMOS

nospaambr...@tinyboot.com (Brad Eckert) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:03:20 UT

Google tforth
-Brad

Re: Writing an ANS Forth

don.seg...@sbcglobal.net (Cecil Bayona) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:12:52 UT

Thanks for the positive feedback.
What sort of code in general would be useful and that vendors might be
interested in? I ask because I have no clue what they might be
interested in, I know what interest me but that is not necessarily the same.
Cecil

FREE SOFTWARE

acadi...@gmail.com (ACADIA) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:10:45 UT

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Re: Writing an ANS Forth

don.seg...@sbcglobal.net (Cecil Bayona) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:07:09 UT

Understood, I have built a few compilers over the years, Fortran, Forth,
Pascal, C, Basic, and some miscellaneous mixes the Fortran, Forth and C
compilers were optimizing compilers. I have not worked on software of
this sort in a while but you never quite forget.
A quickie band aid that is better than a sharp stick in the eye is a a

Re: Intellasys vs XMOS

leon...@btinternet.com (Leon) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:54:37 UT

XMOS is now shipping their $99 XC-1 dev kit. I've ordered one.
Parallel Forth, anyone?
Leon

Re: Writing an ANS Forth

georgeahub...@yahoo.co.uk (George Hubert) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:45:02 UT

Yes please (or you could upload it to the files area at the W32F group
at yahoo, since I'm sure some of the others will want it too).
George Hubert

Re: syntactical sugaring

dhoff...@talkamerica.net (Doug Hoffman) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:35:43 UT

Agreed. I use both layouts that you show above. If it is a somewhat
uncommon call it is easy, and extremely helpful later, to embed
comments. For example:
5 ( top) 5 ( left) w Window-w 10 - ( bot) w Window-h 30 - ( right)
or
5 \ top
5 \ left
w Window-w 10 - \ bot
w Window-h 30 - \ right
Yes!

Re: Writing an ANS Forth

b...@rivadpm.com (Alex McDonald) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:07:32 UT

On Oct 3, 8:02 pm, an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac. at (Anton Ertl)
wrote:
Wow! High praise indeed for Win32Forth. But I'm afraid i haven't had
any time at all to take it further. The
[link]
version is out of date, and I haven't kept the CVS version up to