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Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
> The eForth version I'm currently using has a meta-compiler so it
> generates a native code version to run on the target system

Oh that's interesting--I don't think I've seen it.  Is it online?

>   What am I trying to do? I wonder myself but what I'm looking for is
> a simple Forth that is easy to understand and modify for some embedded
> but mostly custom Forth CPUs. 

Do you mean a resident Forth that will run on a softcore CPU of your own
design?  Or a cross-compiler like the one Bernd uses for his b16?  If
you want a tiny resident Forth, eForth seems like a good starting point.
For cross-compilation, eForth is pretty limited unless you extend it a
lot, so you might want to use something more featureful.

> There is a certain appeal to eForth because of it's simplicity, and
> using it for custom CPUs and for the Desktop with a souped up version
> would make life a little easier in the sense that for both targets one
> is basically using similar versions of Forth.

I'll be interested in seeing the souped up version when you have it.
The version I played with was imho too limited for comfort, compared to
other Forths out there.