FORTHs was Re: [Color Computer] [Coco] Re: CoCo USB

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On 1 Aug 2005 at 8:46, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:

Subject:        	Re: FORTHs was Re: [Color Computer] [Coco] Re: CoCo 
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> On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 02:17 -0600, Willard Goosey wrote:
> 
> > There's three in ftp://os9archive.rtsi.com/RSDOS/LANGUAGE
> > 
> > DACFORTH is buried in the old Princeton archive on maltedmedia in
> > ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/princeton_coco_files/
> > 
> > forth09 for OS9 is in
> > ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/princeton_os9_files/
> > 
> > Frank Hogg had a FORTH system... I know he dumped all his old FLEX
> > stuff into the PD, what about his coco stuff?
> > 
> 
> I'd guess these are all Fig Forths or Forth-79, at best Forth-83. The
> current standard is ANS (94) Forth. But that probably doesn't matter
> too much since very few Coco programmers know Forth.
> 
*******

I beleive the Frank Hogg Labs Forth for the Color Computer running under FLex is 
to Forth 79 standard. 

Toyed a bit with it. It surprised me that it is somewhat quick in execusion of its code. 
Then again the addressing modes of the 6809 lend itself nicely to Forth. 

Not to familiar with Forth but I would like to spend some time learing Forth better.

james


> It is probably important though that source be available. Do you know
> if the source is available for any of these (the core, I mean...
> unless these were target compiled the high level words will all be
> threaded code and a high-level reverse compilation can be done even
> without the source... but the core is usually written in each
> machine's native assembly language)? 
> 
> -- John.
> 
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