On 01/20/2017 03:12 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
On Fri, 1/20/17, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
If you want a really nice Forth workstation, pick up a nice SPARCstation-IPC or -IPX and just don't boot it! ;)
I should take one of my IPCs and dedicate it to that :) Come to think of it, maybe that's what I should do for VCF this year: a Forth exhibit. I should easily be able to have 3 or 4 different Forths running on a table. At a quick thought, I should be able to have it running on a 6809, a 68HC11, a SPARC, and an LSI-11.
Schweet. Have you ever seen CamelForth? That's an implementation that I really like. I ported it to a Z80 SBC that I built many years ago, and wrote tons of extensions for it, including the ability to save screens to an I2C NVRAM chip, and a full-screen (ANSI control sequences) editor for screens. The latter I wrote in Z80 assembler; it was great fun to do. I've been itching to dust that off and do more stuff with it, maybe implement an IDE interface or something for screen storage. For any non-Forthers reading this, Forth code in traditional implementations is divided into pages called "screens" which are traditionally 16 lines of 64 characters each. This encourages Forth "words" (functions, sorta) to be short and highly granular. Modern Forth doesn't work this way, but I really like it, so I stick with it for vintage applications. Brian, speaking of PDP-11 Forths, have you seen SOL-11? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA