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From: bouma@cs.purdue.EDU (William J. Bouma)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: 6502 PD Forth Kernel
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Keywords: forth  6502
Message-ID: <8428@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 89 22:38:44 GMT
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In article <21108@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> rs0@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bob Slaughter) writes:
>I have a friend who wants to write a 6502 based forth, and he needs
>the source listing and such for this.  Where can he go to find it?
>While the machine does have some implementations already, he wants to
>start from scratch.  (see previous posting about minimal machine
>implementation  :} )
>

    Uh, if he wants to start from scratch, why does he need a listing?
    I am sure you can get a listing from the Forth Interest Group. I 
    don't have the address available, but can get it for you if you 
    drop me a note. It will probably cost ~$10.

    I am not sure why anyone would want to implement such a minimal
    machine, at least in software. It is bound to run reletively slow
    as there will be more threading to get to the few primitives. It
    is an interesting thing to think about, but why implement? Especially
    why write it in assembler? Since it is going to be slow anyway,
    use a friendly language.
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