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Re: £3.60

From Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: £3.60
Date 2021-01-22 17:19 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 22.1.21 17.03, gareth evans wrote:
> On 22/01/2021 13:34, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 22/01/2021 13:22, gareth evans wrote:
>>> In my retirement, I have some ideas on language
>>> development, essentially interactive as was BASIC
>>> and FORTH but running at the speed of compiled
>>> code, and the 64 bit ARM instruction set looks
>>> like a good starter.
>>
>> FORTH was good stuff speed wise
>>
>>
> 
> I never used it in anger, but spent a lot of time thinking
> about it. I seem to have on my bookshelf most of the FORTH
> and TIL primers. I was considering something like a FORTH
> but not being based upon Reverse Polish.
> 
> ISTR that FORTH on an RCA 1802 is in the Voyager missions?
> 
> Now, that was a weird instruction set! ISTR 8-off 16 bit
> registers but no 16-bit moves, all having to be done in
> 8-bit chunks through the accumulator, and no conventional
> subroutine call but change which of the 16-bit registers
> at any time was the program counter!


FORTH is as much Reverse Polish (Lukasciewicz) as the older
HP calculators.

-- 

-TV

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£3.60 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-01-21 15:49 +0000
  Re: £3.60 Nikolaj Lazic <nlazicBEZ_OVOGA@mudrac.ffzg.hr> - 2021-01-21 17:25 +0000
    Re: £3.60 Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-21 19:39 +0000
      Re: £3.60 Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-21 20:50 +0000
    Re: £3.60 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-21 20:40 +0000
  Re: £3.60 Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-21 17:21 +0000
    Re: £3.60 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-21 20:39 +0000
      Re: £3.60 A. Dumas <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-21 21:51 +0000
        Re: £3.60 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-21 22:54 +0000
          Re: £3.60 Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-22 01:01 +0000
          Re: £3.60 A. Dumas <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-22 06:51 +0000
            Re: £3.60 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-01-22 09:33 +0000
              Re: £3.60 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-22 13:22 +0000
                Re: £3.60 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-22 13:34 +0000
                Re: £3.60 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-22 15:03 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2021-01-22 17:19 +0200
                Re: £3.60 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-22 15:24 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-22 16:25 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-01-23 19:56 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-23 20:25 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-23 20:31 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-22 15:34 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 17:17 +0100
                Re: £3.60 Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-22 16:30 +0000
                Re: Re: £3.60 stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2021-01-22 17:47 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-22 15:00 +0000
                Re: £3.60 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-22 15:18 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-22 16:02 +0000
                Re: £3.60 Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-01-22 20:05 +0000
                Re: £3.60 "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-22 16:07 +0100
                Re: Re: £3.60 stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2021-01-22 15:53 +0000
                Re: £3.60 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-22 16:17 +0000
                Re: Re: £3.60 stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2021-01-22 17:25 +0000
              Re: £3.60 Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> - 2021-01-22 22:14 +0000
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      Re: £3.60 Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2021-01-22 10:38 +0000
        Re: £3.60 "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-22 16:13 +0100
          Re: £3.60 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-22 20:04 +0000
            Re: £3.60 "A. Dumas" <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2021-01-22 23:39 +0100
              Re: Re: £3.60 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-01-23 00:23 +0000
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