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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Some questions
Summary: OF COURSE Forth is what you want!
Keywords: z80,mms,brodie
Message-ID: <12917@well.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 89 00:48:57 GMT
References: <1377@luth.sm.luth.se>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1377@luth.sm.luth.se> Jan Erik Mostr|m <jem@sm.luth.se> writes:
>
>1)      A good book about Forth to determine if Forth is the
>        language I need.
>			

	I would recommend for the flavor of Forth approaches to programming
that you read Leo Brodie's _Thinking Forth_.

>2)      Is there some implementations of Forth for z80 and/or
>        8051 family that can be used in embedded systems. I
>        would prefer PD but ....
>				
	How about commercial? MMS Forth from Miller Micro Systems. Subscribe
to FORTH Dimensions magazine for a good selection of ads about what's
available in microcontroller Forths commercially. You could always port
your own ROMmed forth from an extant PD system. I've done it, it's not
too hard.

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