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, 09 Apr 2017 21:39:27 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: <877f2s98qo.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <07Kdnf9iQ4cOaHrFnZ2dnUU7-dfNnZ2d@supernews.com> <2017Apr8.163050@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="304fe6faaa9227b6d8739ba7e8be15b2"; logging-data="11273"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+2FUP27Fed9PBFAYcs7orT" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4XylD9gSblbeDU24YyCuwAIkKbA= sha1:dm51YiPy900a/vuioksnxVqfFD0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:56969 rickman writes: > There is some irony in the fact that of the systems that host a real > OS, the RaspberryPi is the only one I am aware of that offers a usable > bare iron Forth and I'm not sure the the Forth OS on the rPi is > actually very complete. I don't even understand why someone would want a bare iron Forth on hardware as complicated as an rpi. But, I think there's a bare iron Scheme (same issues) so maybe some parts of it could be repurposed for Forth. On a Pi, I'd just run a user mode Forth. Bare iron Forth is of more interest on the many little ARM and comparable boards out there, that can run various RTOS's but that we usually don't think of as interactive OS platforms. Maybe that's starting to change, with efforts like MicroPython, NodeMCU, and so on.