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From: ihnp4!ihlpg!timborn@ucbjade.Berkeley.Edu
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Date: 11 Oct 85 15:05:54 CDT (Fri)
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Subject: Re: FIGIL DIGEST
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As for bringing up Forth on a new chip.  If you have a reasonable grasp of
Forth internals, you may want to contact the Forth Interest Group (FIG) in
California.  They will sell (for a nominal price) the sources for Forth for
almost any processor around.  Although they may not have yours yet, you say
it's close to the 6800.  Given the source + installation manual + time, you
could probably build your own from the ground up.

tim
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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 85 12:10:38 cdt
From: ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!mmm!plumbo@ucbjade.Berkeley.Edu (Philip Plumbo)
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: re FIGIL DIGEST
Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
>Sent-From: Barry Megdal <BARRY@CIT-20.ARPA>
>Subject: Forths
>
>1) I need a good "professional" Forth system for the IBM PC, to use
>as a general development environment.  Features such as full floating-

I would suggest polyForth from Forth, Inc as a professional, consistent,
and well-documented implementation of the language for the IBM-PC. I have
several years of experience using various Forths in different projects
(most recently: The AirFone air-to-ground telephone system) and have found
polyForth to be a reliable, fast, and well-debugged system.

The kernel uses a simple, efficient multi-tasker, and includes support for
source screen 'shadows', which may contain the documentation for a specific
screen.  The implementation of this feature on the IBM-PC with the IBM
monochrome monitor (without graphics card) is extremely fast, giving the
user the impression that the documentation lives beneath the source, to be
switched into view in an instant.  The 'DOCUMENTOR' utility also allows
the rapid generation of an application glossary.

>
>2) I need to bring up a Forth environment on a Motorola 68HC11 processor.

Forth, Inc has a wide range of 'target' (cross-) compilers available,
including one for the 6800.  You would develop, document and maintain on the
PC, and ship compiled code to the 6811.  The 'target' system would (if
desired) have its own Forth interpreter, (multi-tasking) and full dictionary,
(useful during development phase), or could be compiled as a minimum-memory
turnkey system, with no interpreter, no dictionary heads, etc. to save space.

In summary: Fast, professional, maintainable.


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>-Barry
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-Philip Plumbo
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