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I acquired a couple of computers from my dad's old work with Forth ROMs in them (Acorn Atom, Epson HX20) so presumably they wrote a data logging and analysis ap

• jacquesm 4y ago
  You'd think the same thing if you looked at my professional Forth work, but that wouldn't make it true... The key is that implementing Forth is so ridiculously simple that you may as well do it as a training exercise. I even wrote one in C, appropriately titled 'the ultimate insult'.
  • rbanffy 4y ago
    In college undersigned a CPU that was initially register based but I figured out I could write a nice stack-based ISA for it and use registers for storage. It was very FORTH-like to program. It had a “verb” bit that told it whether that word was data (to be stacked) or an operation, to be done.
    • denton-scratch 4y ago
      There was a processor family called NOVIX, that was a hardware implementation of Forth - using a gate-array, I think. Nowadays I suppose you could put 128 Forth processors on a chip 1/10th the size of a modern microcontroller. I don't know why people don't build Forth hardware; it should be cheap, efficient, and fast.