Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog

From	Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com>
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Subject	Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog
Date	2012-08-17 08:43 -0700
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> when forth based tiny pc with functional firefox equivalent and usb for keybaord n mouse? vga for monitor?

http://www.open-pandora.org/

I think that I have mentioned it before, but if you really want a portable, capable, modern Forth computer, then I would do this.  Buy a Pandora, get the hardware spec.  You have a certain specific piece of hardware to write for, which will make your job doable, in contrast to attempting to write a PC hardware Forth which would mean you must write for a large number of hardware systems. Now study Inside F83 and F83 Source to get an idea of how a Forth engine is put together.  Grab the best assembler you can find for the Pandora.  Or, you could buy an Arm Forth from Forth Inc. or MPE.  Start out small, just get the keyboard, block system, and prompt to work, maybe a small kernel with a few hundred words.  Test each word as you move along.  Then when you are sure that your Forth system is stable, add more words to it to access the graphics capabilities.  I'm not sure that you could really build a browser, as that would be a very large task, but you would have a pocket Forth computer.

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Latest from Chuck's Blog Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-14 10:35 -0700
  Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 18:54 -0400
    Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-15 18:17 -0700
      Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-08-16 21:34 +0200
        Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2012-08-16 13:37 -0700
          Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-16 15:56 -0700
  Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 16:48 -0700
    Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-15 17:37 -0700
      Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2012-08-16 13:35 -0700
    Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-15 17:51 -0700
      Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2012-08-16 13:35 -0700
        Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-08-16 19:09 -0400
    Re: Latest from Chuck's Blog Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-17 08:43 -0700

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