... Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote Re: 32 bit FORTH ??? Different tack! [..] I have a TMS320C31 that I'm not using It's on...Do you want to try to bring up a Forth on it, starting with no ROM, even though ...> hardware remains fully functional? The processor can support Forth. (Marcel Hendrix wrote one.) I have a Forth for the TMS320C30, not for the TMS320C31. It's an umbilical ...

...Anton Ertl) writes Re: 32 bit FORTH ??? Different tack! mhx@iae.nl (...) writes: The problem with a Forth metacompiler is that it is terribly... almost all of the new Forth is ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ finished). I had this ... iForth32. Let's hope 128-bit CPU's won't be ... it to run on 64-bit ports (or nowadays rather on .../anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien....

... Ertl) writes Re: 32 bit FORTH ??? Different tack! mhx@iae.nl ... writes: The problem with a Forth metacompiler is that it is ... almost all of the new Forth is ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ finished). I had this ... I foolishly assumed that 64-bit CPUs would simply double all...address offsets and supports 64-bit constants only in a very...s fixed now for 128 bit CPUs). Furthermore, I had considered...

...> writes Re: 32 bit FORTH ??? Different tack! [..] Actually, FORTH, Inc. never did ...on a machine that already ran Forth. We still use that method today...Windows/Linux/DOS) is written in Forth assembler and iForth. However, it ... time :-) The problem with a Forth metacompiler is that it is ... almost all of the new Forth is finished). I had this ... iForth32. Let's hope 128-bit CPU's won't be ...

...CPU)', write a ~200 byte 'FORTH microkernal' in machine code, use...NCC (native code compilation) for Forth. Depending on how you tune...good code generator for a 32 bit CPU is a non...are about 5000 lines of Forth source code, of which about...in, matches closely enough, your 'Forth kernal & bootstrap OS' on the...with a threaded system. Slightly different subject --- I expressed the other...

...chip(CPU)', write a ~200 byte 'FORTH microkernal' in machine code, use that 'microkernal' to write (in FORTH) the balance of the needed '...could take off and solve, (in FORTH), whatever problem you had to start... NCC (native code compilation) for Forth. Depending on how you tune ...a good code generator for a 32 bit CPU is a non-... are about 5000 lines of Forth source code, of which about ...

...Hendrix) writes: The problem with a Forth metacompiler is that it is terribly...a 64-bit Forth if the host has only 32-bits (because you can't fully...until almost all of the new Forth is finished). I had this problem...in iForth32. Let's hope 128-bit CPU's won't be with...works just fine, and building a 128-bit kernel on a 64-bit...at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac...

... easily understand the problems involved were 'FORTH Inc' to attempt doing this. ...consciously avoiding 'keeping up with' the Forth community. An Initial Spec, would, ...to be extended to handle 32 bit & 64 bit CPUs. The specs need..., that couldn't be coded 'differently' (Usually trivial 'order of execution' ... to some extent within the forth community? [Vague recollections of discussions ...

...@gamewood.net> wrote: <SNIP> Generating a Forth for a new machine involved writing... on a machine that already ran Forth. Writing it my way, involves using ...is portable as seen from outside Forth. But only if you have that...think that my approach is very different. The kernel is very small en...out of the box iforth. The difference is that the library code has...

... dictionary setup, and then JUST USE FORTH to go from there EVERYTHING else,...but not for this. Generating a Forth for a new machine involved ...on a machine that already ran Forth. Writing it my way, involves using... did write a DEC Alpha Forth assembler.) <SNIP> Sure, but it ... understand the problems involved were 'FORTH Inc' to attempt doing this. ...