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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> For a token threaded Forth the primitives use fixed values, the tokens
> or in other words, machine commands of the virtual machine.  But Forth
> defined words are in the dictionary and there would need to be
> something to distinguish them, no?

Think of the GA144 instruction set: there's a bunch of primitive
instructions like arithmetic, and there's also CALL and JUMP
instructions that read an address from the instruction stream and adjust
the RSP and PC appropriately.