bcoon@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (04/06/87)
Is anyone on the net familiar with the Novix Forth-engine? I am currently looking for a project for my computer science class and thought it sounded like a pretty interesting microprocessor. My biggest concerns are price and design difficulty. I would appreciate any information you can give me. Thanks. Brett Coon -
rfl@oddjob.UUCP (04/08/87)
We have had a gamma (now beta, I believe) board for over a year now. We have been slow to really do much with it since the processor plays the role of the terminal UART. This means that every character we download from our macintosh (where we store the Forth source code) is echoed back and the next character sent is missed by the Novix. We could, of course, write a program in the mac to take care of this, or we could add a UART, but then would have to modify the input words. Anyway, we now have a student taking charge of the board and we hope some progress is made. The board cost about $600 as I remember.