Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Looking for some help with this gforth program. Thanks! Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 10:10:50 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <87h9dynd2d.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> References: <6548d185-2c31-40a4-bfa9-a3c353e9fa5d@googlegroups.com> <1f0a9579-b955-4de5-85be-3b26aa0f9723@googlegroups.com> <87wpmy4tno.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> <2016May15.123405@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <5fc58bbc-d742-4b25-aa89-6bfdcfc3d619@googlegroups.com> <87shxioj4i.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> <04mdnUDSJPzhdKTKnZ2dnUU7-evNnZ2d@supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="589dd00be5ee573d7046ed589be3c50c"; logging-data="15141"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX187x1j5aBFd5oZ3LkmCejwh" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BWgsPidcbyGGpUG+XBrlbyyv86g= sha1:Ss1mt0CgaNaA0AwPOCDceDrRo14= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:47204 Andrew Haley writes: > Perhaps not C, but definitely PL/M. Oh yes, PL/M, cool. I've been wanting to look into that sometime. I wonder if it got some things right that C messed up. > Between the 8080 and the 8086 came the Z80. And the 8085 ;-) > The 8086 had index registers too, and along with proper 16-bit > arithmetic this was pretty much the complete feature set you need for C. I think the first real intentional C machine was Dave Ditzel's CRISP. But, I don't remember what deficiencies (from a C perspective) in earlier processors it tried to fix.