Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Perhaps I asked the wrong question... FORTH
On Fri, 1/20/17, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Schweet. Have you ever seen CamelForth?
I've only taken a cursory look at it, but never actually run it. I've generally heard good things about it though.
Brian, speaking of PDP-11 Forths, have you seen SOL-11?
I had not. But it turns out that I'm planning to show something similar running on a little LSI-11 in a BA11-VA box. I'm going to try to dust off something I wrote *mumble* years ago back in college. For several years, the August issue of Byte was dedicated to a particular language. The year I graduated from high school it was Forth. So I arrive at college with the latest issue of Byte in hand and am thinking this looks like kind of a cool language. Of course, I ask if we've got a Forth implementation on the school's 11/70 to play with. When the answer was no, the natural response was, "ok, I'll write one." That was the genesis of a college nickname, Sir Forth. Senior year comes along and I decide to write a small OS for my CS senior project. That Forth implementation becomes the shell/application language for the OS. So it's long overdue to be returned to a running state. BLS
On 01/21/2017 04:15 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
Schweet. Have you ever seen CamelForth?
I've only taken a cursory look at it, but never actually run it. I've generally heard good things about it though.
I really like it. It's very easy to port and extend.
Brian, speaking of PDP-11 Forths, have you seen SOL-11?
I had not. But it turns out that I'm planning to show something similar running on a little LSI-11 in a BA11-VA box. I'm going to try to dust off something I wrote *mumble* years ago back in college. For several years, the August issue of Byte was dedicated to a particular language. The year I graduated from high school it was Forth. So I arrive at college with the latest issue of Byte in hand and am thinking this looks like kind of a cool language. Of course, I ask if we've got a Forth implementation on the school's 11/70 to play with. When the answer was no, the natural response was, "ok, I'll write one." That was the genesis of a college nickname, Sir Forth. Senior year comes along and I decide to write a small OS for my CS senior project. That Forth implementation becomes the shell/application language for the OS. So it's long overdue to be returned to a running state.
Very cool! It's great that you still have the source code. I can't wait to see that run. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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