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Date: 27 Jun 90 02:30:09 GMT
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Category 18,  Topic 59
Message 6         Mon Jun 25, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 23:43 EDT
 
Re: riddles@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Glen Ridley)

 > I have just started using F83 on an XT and I am trying to get
 > FORTH to talk to an ADDA card.  The address of the ADDA card is
 > $270 - $277. A memory dump of this area of memory seems to
 > indicate the dictionary

Ah, that does not sound like a memory address on a PC to me.  It should have
at least 4 or 5 digits, and have something called a segment pointer to go
along with it.  However, it just might be an I/O address, and 8 locations
might just be right.  I can't remeber if F83 has a high level I/O instruction
built in but it would be called something like INPUT and OUTPUT or P@ and P!
or maybe even PC@ or PC!.  On INTEL processors, I/O is handled on a seperate
channel so you do not use memory instructions to access it.  DUMP access
memory so it can not be used.  Let me know if you can't find anything in F83
to do it and I will dig out my archive of it and work some up for you.

DaR
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