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Subject: PYGMY Forth
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Date: 11 Mar 90 02:10:43 GMT
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 Date: 03-08-90 (22:39)              Number: 3012 (Echo)
   To: IAN GREEN                     Refer#: 3011
 From: MICHAEL HOBSON                  Read: NO
 Subj: CMFORTH FOR MS/DOS            Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 [Note, Pygmy is also available on SIMTEL20 --dwp]

 Frank Sargent has written a marvelous MS/DOS Forth called Pygmy, that is
 supposed to be a very close approximation of cmForth (Chuck Moore Forth)
 that is available for downloading here on this board.  PYGMY12.ZIP is 
 the latest version, I believe.  It comes with all the source code, a 
 metacompiler (allows you to customize Pygmy with your own enhancements 
 and/or revised kernel word definitions), an 8086 Assembler and a small 
 screen editor built in.  The executable is only about 30 Kbytes!!  If 
 you re-metacompile it and leave out the editor and assembler, it fits in
 about 12 Kbytes!!  Don't make the mistake of writing this thing off as a
 toy - there are around 400 built-in words in this little mighty-mite.
 "The Elf" [^]-[^]
            \---/
 Elf - A wise (?) and helpful variety of magical being.

 P.S. -- as supplied, a full 64K segment is consumed at run-time, but 
 this can be easily changed by altering a couple of constants in the 
 source and metacompiling.   I shrunk a copy (without the screen editor) 
 to about 20K of run-time RAM with no problems.  This is small enough to 
 build really compact TSR programs with.
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