Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!sdcc6!ir230 From: ir230@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (john wavrik) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Where to get Standards documents Keywords: FIG Message-ID: <11971@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 22 Jul 90 06:17:54 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 45 Someone asked about where to get copies of the Standards documents. Forth Interest Group P.O. Box 8231 San Jose, CA 95155 Copies of the Forth-79 and Forth-83 Standards are available at $15 each. It is also interesting to compare these standards with a description by a model. Assembly language listings for the fig-Forth model for 12 CPUs are still available -- but more interesting is the fig-Forth Installation Manual. Also of interest is a Systems Guide to fig-Forth which discusses the internal structure of the model. NB fig-Forth is primarily written in Forth -- most of the assembly language just installs colon definitions in the dictionary. The Installation Manual gives the Forth code definitions. 306 ANS BASIS document $15 305 Forth-83 Standard $15 300 Forth-79 Standard $15 310 Systems Guide to fig-Forth $25 502 fig-Forth Installation Manual $15 513-528 Source code listings $15 most were written between 1979-1982 [1802,6502,6800,6809,8080,8086/88,9900,Z80 APPLE II, IBM-PC, PDP-11, VAX] Prices are within US. Members receive 10% discount. Calif residents must add sales tax. Shipping and handling charge $2. fig-Forth is worth looking at. The intent was that vendors (rather than individual users) would use the model as contained in the listings as the basis for their implemention of Forth. This is what actually happened. For a period of several years, versions of Forth which ran in essentially the same way were available for a large variety of computers. Unless you have had experience with fig-Forth you won't be able to understand why some people feel that Forth has gone down hill since. John J Wavrik jjwavrik@ucsd.edu Dept of Math C-012 Univ of Calif - San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093