Re: microFORTH

Subject	Re: microFORTH
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From	"Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com>
Organization	FORTH, Inc.
Date	2017-05-02 10:07 -1000
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On 5/2/17 2:25 AM, Howerd wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 11:11:33 AM UTC+2, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>> On 04/25/2017 03:15 AM, JUERGEN wrote:
>>>> microFORTH documentation is available on the FORTH, INC. website. Not
>>>> a new product - but many here will probably remember it. And might
>>>> have a look after many years ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know how useful it is, unless you want examples of bugs.
>>>
>>> It starts off with the definition of LOAD:
>>>
>>> : LOAD BLK C@ <R IN @ <R 0 IN ! 8* OFFSET @ + F9F DROP
>>>    BLK ! INTERPRET R> IN ! R> BLK C! ;
>>>
>>> The value in BLK is saved and restored using C@ and C! yet it has to
>>> have a larger range than that and the new value is set using !.
>>
>> From what I remember COSMAC disk drives were about 80k bytes.
>>
>>> Plus most of the code is missing.
>>
>> MicroFORTH shipped with a precompiled nucleus of less than a kbyte and
>> the rest of system built on top of that.  I think Maj. Seltzer had
>> more than just MicroFORTH.
>>
>> Andrew.
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> IIRC the COSMAC had two 160K 8 inch floppies.
>
> OMG this was 39 years ago...
> If I am correct this is longer retention than some FLASH chips and all CDs...
> Of course I may have dropped a bit or two ;-)

Ah, the good old days. My memory of enormous 250K floppies is clearly 
from a later, happier era.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

-- 
Elizabeth D. Rather
FORTH, Inc.
6080 Center Drive, Suite 600
Los Angeles, CA  90045
USA

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microFORTH JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-04-25 01:15 -0700
  Re: microFORTH "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-26 09:35 +1000
    Re: microFORTH "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-25 14:15 -1000
      Re: microFORTH lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 23:09 -0700
      Re: microFORTH "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-01 11:15 +1000
  Re: microFORTH David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-30 15:02 -0500
    Re: microFORTH rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 21:13 -0400
      Re: microFORTH David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-30 20:24 -0500
        Re: microFORTH rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-01 21:02 -0400
          Re: microFORTH Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-05-02 05:58 -0400
          Re: microFORTH Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 15:13 +0200
            Re: microFORTH rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 11:44 -0400
              Re: microFORTH David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2017-05-04 16:54 -0500
    Re: microFORTH "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-02 10:36 +1000
      Re: microFORTH "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-05-01 15:20 -1000
        Re: microFORTH "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-02 13:01 +1000
          Re: microFORTH hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-01 20:42 -0700
            Re: microFORTH hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-01 21:27 -0700
              Re: microFORTH "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-02 17:05 +1000
                Re: microFORTH "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-05-01 21:18 -1000
          Re: microFORTH "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-02 16:45 +1000
          Re: microFORTH JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-05-02 00:08 -0700
          Re: microFORTH hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-02 11:36 -0700
            Re: microFORTH "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-03 10:43 +1000
              Re: microFORTH hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-02 19:45 -0700
              Re: microFORTH Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-05-03 04:41 -0500
              Re: microFORTH David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2017-05-04 17:03 -0500
                Re: microFORTH "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-05-04 12:58 -1000
                Re: microFORTH "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-05 12:57 +1000
        Re: microFORTH David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2017-05-04 16:57 -0500
    Re: microFORTH Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-05-02 04:11 -0500
      Re: microFORTH Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-05-02 04:16 -0500
      Re: microFORTH Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2017-05-02 05:25 -0700
        Re: microFORTH "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-05-02 10:07 -1000
      Re: microFORTH David Schultz <abuse@127.0.0.1> - 2017-05-04 17:15 -0500

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