ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (01/08/90)
Message 179 Sun Jan 07, 1990 L.MERRICK at 09:32 PST OK, dumb question of the day time. I've been programming in FORTH for 10+ years in the Z80 environment. (FORTH83 under UniFORTH.) Now I have a MS-DOS machine (read AT clone) and am unable to wend my way through the maze of FORTH's for it. I actually USE floating point and I like an editor that I can fully customize. I'm used to writing code in block format. What is out there that doesn't require 200 hours of construction to get running under MS-DOS? ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated program. Report problems to: 'uunet!willett!dwp' or 'willett!dwp@gateway.sei.cmu.edu'
ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (01/08/90)
Message 180 Sun Jan 07, 1990
NMORGENSTERN [Leonard] at 15:16 EST
L.MERRICK writes:
LM> OK, dumb question of the day time.
The only dumb questions are those asked by a student who wants to show how
clever he is. (Not sexist: most students who do that are male)
LM> I've been programming in FORTH for 10+ years in the Z80
LM> machine (read AT clone) and am 3unable to wend my way through
LM> the maze of FORTH's for it.
LM>
LM> I actually USE floating point and I like an editor that I can fully
LM> customize. I'm used to writing code in block format. What is out there
that
LM> doesn't require 200 hours of construction to get running under MS-DOS?
I always recommend F83 as a starting Forth. F83 is "clean, " well-documented,
and reasonable-sized. It is powerful enough that you may never need another
Forth. You should have little trouble converting from a Z80 machine. Its
disadvantages are that 1) it is limited to 64K; 2) uses the old DOS 1.x calls;
and 3) has a line-oriented editor, so you cannot zip around with the cursor
keys.
There are several floating point packages that are compatible with F83. I
can't say which is best. Maybe someone else can help you.
Good luck. If you have questions, post them.
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