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Subject: Forth Implementation
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Date: 28 May 90 00:50:36 GMT
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Category 3,  Topic 24
Message 68        Sun May 27, 1990
B.RODRIGUEZ2                 at 12:17 EDT
 
You too?  This seems to be the topic of the year.  I'm sorry I missed Ray
Duncan's ESP column on this; but I did hear the talk on chipFORTH at last
year's Rochester conference.

I've recently modified my own metacompiler to compile directly into an
embedded Zilog Super8, using a small (~300 bytes) "talker" program in the
target system.  Meta-definitions are compiled directly into the target's
memory, but the headers reside in the host.  Meta- interpretation lets you
execute target words by typing their names at the host.  There's some fudging
to make the target's stack look like the active parameter stack.  Naturally,
you compile into the target only those words that your application requires. 
(It's fun to be able to test "DUP" when it's the only word in the target
dictionary!)

It's still an ungainly mess, but I'm going to be giving a "how-to" talk at
Rochester on this project.  (Or at least as much of the "how-to" as I can
communicate in 15 minutes.)  If you're not going to be at Rochester, I'd be
happy to send you the 5-page paper.  I'm not going to be showing off the
actual code until I clean it up a bit.

- Brad
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