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Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta

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On 4/8/2017 5:44 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote:
> In article <ocb69s$mg2$1@dont-email.me>, rickman  <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/8/2017 3:14 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote:
>>> A beta version can be found via
>>> http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/ciforth.html#DOWNLOADS
>>>
>>> If nobody reports embarrassing problems it shortly will be pushed to
>>>     https://github.com/albertvanderhorst/ciforth
>>> and after more testing a 6.0.0 release will be available in
>>>     https://github.com/albertvanderhorst/ciforth/release
>>>
>>> The usual ciforth features:
>>> GPL/LGPL, runtime: one executable and one library, complete specific
>>> documentation, compiles to native exe files, one assembler source
>>> file.
>>>
>>> NOTE: KEY and KEY? may not be fully functional. SYSTEM works
>>> SAVE-SYSTEM has not been adequately tested because of virus checkers
>>> that immediately delete the generated .EXE files.
>>>
>>> Groetjes Albert
>>>
>>> 1] Despite the name kernel32.dll is 64 bits software.
>>
>> Perhaps I don't understand what "native" means.  I thought that would be
>> a Forth that doesn't use an operating system.  Obviously that isn't
>> true.  What does "native" mean?
>
> Read the description and associate that with native in a ciforth context.
>
> In 2000 I had 2 configurations for a Linux Forth, one with c-calls
> for KEY and EMIT and READ-BLOCK and one native, i.e. direct Linux
> system calls. That stuck. Then there were similar MS-DOS and MS-Windows
> Forth's.

I'm sorry, I don't follow what you are saying.  What is a c-call for 
KEY/EMIT?  I'm lost here.

-- 

Rick C

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wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-08 09:14 +0200
  Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-08 09:29 +0200
  Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-08 21:04 +1000
  Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-08 13:26 -0400
    Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-08 23:44 +0200
      Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-09 01:13 -0400
        Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-09 12:43 +0200
          Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta minforth@arcor.de - 2017-04-09 04:31 -0700
            Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta john <anon@example.com> - 2017-04-09 13:13 +0100
            Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-09 14:43 +0200
              Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta minforth@arcor.de - 2017-04-09 08:56 -0700
                Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-09 09:44 -0700
                Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta minforth@arcor.de - 2017-04-09 22:07 -0700
                Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-10 12:40 +0200
          Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-10 02:15 -0400
            Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-09 23:21 -0700
              Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-10 01:40 -0700
                Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-10 04:15 -0700
                Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-10 13:49 +0200
              Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-10 10:05 -0400
                Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-04-10 14:27 +0000
                Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-10 20:05 +0200
                Re: wina64 : a 64 bit native MS-Windows Forth in beta minforth@arcor.de - 2017-04-10 14:26 -0700

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