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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 85 19:33 EST
From: SECRIST%OAK.SAINET.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA
Subject: Access to FORTH
Organization: Science Applications Int'l. Corp., Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Geographic-Location: 36 01' 42" N, 84 14' 14" W
TELL THE NET ABOUT YOUR FREEBIE FORTHS !
I would like to compile a list of FORTH implementations that are available
on a not-for-profit basis on net or publically accessable BBS systems for
several net lists (INFO-CPM, INFO-APPLE, UMFORTH [aka FIGIL, bitnet],
INFO-IBMPC and any others that are appropriate or suggested.)
If you have downloaded FORTH from ANYPLACE and found it to be usable and
intact, please send me details on the version of FORTH, what machine it is
for, which standard it follows, THE SYSTEM YOU ACQUIRED IT FROM, the date
you snarfed it or saw it there last, and anything else you care to say
about it. (Sources could include SIMTEL20, CompuServe, BBSes, etc.. The
list will include multiple sources since people do not all have access to
the same places.)
I will post the results in a couple of weeks. Please send info to:
SECRIST%OAK.SAInet.MFEnet@LLL-MFE.Arpa, with thanks.
-- Richard Secrist, President
East Tennessee FORTH Interest Group
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> Date: 21 Oct 1985 12:20:46 PDT
> Subject: Forth chips
> From: Barry Megdal <BARRY@CIT-20.ARPA>
> To: umforth%weizmann.bitnet@WISCVM.ARPA
>
> I've recently been looking around for pre-programmed Forth
> microprocessors... i.e., with some or all of the Forth system in ROM.
> I have found the Rockwell R65F11/12, and the (barely available) Novix
> NC4000. Anyone know of others, or have reviews of the above?
>
> -Barry
Last June I had the honor of meeting Chuck Moore at a local talk
hosted by the good folks at ORNL, who are getting several of the Novix
Beta Boards for their robotics and AI work. A review of the talk and
what Moore had to say about FORTH and the Novix chip is included in
this issue of the ET-FIG news, posted out of sequence in response to
Barry's message. Hope it is of interest to all.
Richard Secrist,
East Tennessee FORTH Interest Group
P.S. -- Norman Smith, who also edits the ET-FIG news,
receives postings to FIGIL from me and can respond to any
questions regarding his articles as well.
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