Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Is there a free version of Forth that uses the exact same words as "Starting Forth" on Forth Inc.'s site? Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 22:26:23 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <874ly65af4.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <2017Apr1.190602@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <87d1cu5c9p.fsf@nightsong.com> <03174eeb-0ca7-4284-b15e-dd4cca0907c9@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="62d9a336d2b9e5ea583f81abcb742873"; logging-data="26952"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19E7JgZPO1FIPcwHE48ghDB" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TxGQDBMeb+f/RRoSM9wgZLDrpBg= sha1:3lVRvoBQOavfcAwsg3eMuTG8p0c= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:56634 Julian Fondren writes: > https://getchip.com/ is pretty fun, and the chip itself is cheap. > The handheld's keyboard isn't pleasant. Wow, they've got some nice stuff there, some of which I didn't know about before. Almost Everything in the store is "Currently on back-order. Estimated Shipping Q1 2017." though, and we're already in Q2 :/. It's hard to tell the difference between the CHIP and CHIP PRO but that's ok ;-). From a Forth perspective these are Raspberry-Pi level computers, large enough that Forth's traditional space-saving techniques don't bring much benefit. I'd probably program them in HLL's unless there were good reasons to do otherwise. Might be a nice 8th platform, if Ron is listening ;-). This board seems to call louder for Forth: https://www.aliexpress.com/item//32369020878.html