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| From | rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Stoked |
| Date | 2015-11-12 15:24 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n22scs$3ju$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 11/12/2015 2:34 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: > rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes: >>> F83 and Polyforth, very traditional. >> There is a reason why blocks are barely used these days. > > Well ok, a simple file system is easy to implement and doesn't take much > code. I've done it several times--it's not a big deal. > >> The real issue is the myriad of support a PC provides.. How many times >> have people tried to boot one of the various native forths only to >> find they don't have the requisite hardware or that the forth doesn't >> support some hardware they wish to use? > > That's because a PC is a complicated device with a lot of hardware that > simpler systems don't deal with. I don't imagine this on a PC but > rather on an MCU or something like a Launchpad board. There just > wouldn't be all that extra stuff from multiple vendors, no CD burner or > desktop scanner, etc. This discussion is not really going anywhere. You are picturing a very simple system that is self contained (of questionable value) with limited functionality as your entire development system. You don't seem to appreciate the need for inter-working, communication or backup et. al. Constructing a full blown development system is a big deal. That's why no one does it. They use computers running an OS with tons of support software. >> "Appeal" is the part I don't get. It may be possible to implement a >> forth that can compile source from local flash, but where is the >> advantage? The same PC connection that lets you use it as a terminal >> can just as easily provide a full set of functions. > > What if there's no PC? You might have a Mac instead, or a Chromebook, > or a mobile phone, or whatever. Any software you wanted to run on the > PC now has to run on that other thing instead. If it's a browser or a > terminal emulator you're probably ok. Anything else: lots of luck. > Better to not depend on any special software. To me "PC" includes whatever platform you are running including a cell phone. What software are you imagining? There typically has to be a terminal emulator and a flash burner. Often the flash burner uses a standard protocol, but often there are vendor specific flavors. If your chip/board vendor doesn't support a platform, then you can't use that without writing your own burner code or more likely modifying existing code to work on that platform. Still tons less work than trying to duplicate the PC functionality on every target you wish to use. >> Ask Forth Inc why they don't support more processors. I remember I >> tried to encourage MPE to support the ARM MCUs. It was some time > > Doing a commercially supported product that has to be qualified on lots > of disparate hardware, with a complicated optimizing compiler (written > in Forth even) that has to be targeted to the new cpu, is a lot more > complicated than porting a simple interpreter or STC compiler. I'm not talking about writing a compiler. I'm talking about supporting a new target. Heck, they even support a limited number of boards using the same CPU. If it were remotely easy, they would support a large number of brands, chip models and boards. >> Actually, I'm not sure why it would be any better to debug the code on >> a different platform. Do you have some special debugging tools on the >> Linux box? What makes this more convenient? > > Well, I'm used to gforth and I've generally found that bigger systems > have more development and debugging conveniences. Plus you don't have > to mess with the target hardware unless you're trying to test something > that actually uses special features that it has. Even for embedded > Linux, I've preferred cross-developing to the extent possible. > >> crashing the target required me to go to the other room since I was >> working remotely. > > For the ARM stuff I'm currently messing with, I work remotely too--my > ARM board is in France (www.scaleway.com/pricing). So I can't easily go > to the other room to muck with it. I'd rather just be able to sit > around with my laptop and no internet, and code the > non-hardware-specific parts as much as possible without the hardware. I > don't even own one of those fancy MSP430 boards at the moment. I'm > resisting buying one until I've actually coded the app. I'm not sure why there would be hardware specific stuff. Isn't this under an OS? Do they even let you access the hardware? >> I was very happy with Mecrisp... In fact, the problem I had using it >> with the PC is the TI driver for flashing the launchpad... So I >> decided to use a raspberry Pi as the "host" for the TI launchpad > > How did you avoid similar problems with the RPi driver? I don't recall the details, but a flash tool for Linux just worked. I think someone had hacked something up that might have been multi-target and they added the TI target. The TI tool would have worked on the PC fine, but they didn't get a signature and you had to muck with a bunch of crap to install the unsigned tool. Part of the reason I used the rPi was so I *could* work remotely, even though it was just in the next room. I also wanted to learn more about using the rPi. I'm not a Linux guy. > See, I'm imagining something like 4e4th where there's no downloads, no > drivers, no installation. You get a board (maybe a Stellaris launchpad, > maybe something like this (it could even be called 5e4th since the board > costs 5 euros): > > https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/MOD-WIFI-ESP8266/ > > with Forth already on it, including all the source code, editor, etc. > Then you just use it directly in a totally Forth environment. That's great, but how "total" can it be? Won't it need a PC to provide storage, etc? How does the user back up the info and propagate it to other units? If you are using a PC for a terminal, all the rest comes free. > Btw that 5 euro board has a 32 bit cpu (comparable to ARM CM3 I think), > 96k of usable ram iiuc, and 2MB of SPI flash there on the board, plus > wifi (board is cheap enough that people use it for non-wifi things too) > and the usual MCU stuff (gpio etc). There are many similar boards for > the same chip. It would be neat to have a Forth system on one. You > could bake it into some embedded thing, and then any time you wanted, > you could go up to it with your smartphone and connect to it and > configure or reprogram it any way you wanted, including total rebuild of > the software, all done right there on the board. Who needs a PC? I might have an application for this board. Right now the prototype is using Bluetooth, but wifi would do the job too. One small detail. The board appears to have no I/O and very little board level documentation. I guess the MOD-WIFI-ESP8266-DEV is more like what I need. I would probably port Mecrisp to it if I can figure out what CPU it uses and how to use it. -- Rick
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