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8-bit Forth

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I spent a few minutes looking at ByteForth, which appears to be a pretty
complete 8-bit Forth:

http://www.forthfreak.net/index.cgi?ByteForth

I can't really tell too much specific about it since the documentation
is written in Dutch.  But, I get the impression that it really is 8-bit
in the sense of having 8 bit data cells.  And I'd think that means
addresses don't fit in the cells.

I'm basically wondering: 1) is that really waht it's doing?  and
2) Did this method ever catch on in the 6502/8051/Z80 era?  Or did
the Forths on those systems all use 16-bit cells?

I continue to have a (masochistic?) interest in the AVR/Atmega because
there's so much cute hardware for it (femtoduino.com for example, or
http://digistump.com/products/1 ).  They seem like very plausible Forth
targets.

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8-bit Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-12 23:41 -0700
  Re: 8-bit Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-10-12 21:02 -1000
    Re: 8-bit Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-10-13 12:46 +0000
      Re: 8-bit Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-13 06:22 -0700
        Re: 8-bit Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-10-15 02:45 +0000
  Re: 8-bit Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-10-13 12:36 +0000
    Re: 8-bit Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-13 06:12 -0700

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