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Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
> Both VFX, and SwiftForth have words to read a millisecond timer, and
> to time events but ANS Forth doesn't seem to have those features, but
> it does have a word to wait x milliseconds which is not useful to time
> things while one continues executing code.

I think there has been some effort to standardize multitasking, though
it hasn't happened yet.  With a multitasker and a way to read the curent
time, you can have a timekeeping task using the millisecond wait
function.