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Subject: Finding a Forth for the 8051/8031
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Date: 9 Dec 90 23:33:15 GMT
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Category 3,  Topic 38
Message 20        Sun Dec 09, 1990
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 11:20 EST
 
For everything you ask, you might consider MPE-Forth by MicroProcessor
Engineering Ltd.  "Umbilical Forth" for the 8051 is about $1500 U.S.,
depending on the current exchange rate.  You'll also need an EPROM emulator;
the one they support is around $850 U.S., or you can write your own drivers
for another.  MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd., 133 Hill Lane, Shirley,
Southampton, U.K., SO1 5AF, telephone 011-44-703-631-441.  U.S. dealer is
Boris Nashanchik, Amics Enterprises, 2604 Elmwood Ave., Suite 108, Rochester
NY 14618, (716) 461-9187.

I believe LMI supports the 8051 target, but not interactively.

If you're really strapped, your final resort is to buy William Payne's
"Embedded Controller Forth" from Academic Press, $60 or so, which includes
listings for an 8051 Forth and a metacompiler. You'll have to type them in; no
one has found them in machine readable form yet.  Not interactive, and I don't
know if it will run using only the internal RAM.

To my knowledge, there are no public domain (FIG, 79, 83, eForth, etc.) 8051
Forths yet.  If you'd like to write one, I'd be happy to send you source and
documentation -- such as it is -- for the interactive metacompiler I presented
at last year's Rochester conf.
 It needs a bit of work.

- Brad
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