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Long ago, when OS/2 came out, a friend relayed to me that "You can't write programs in assembler for OS/2, they have to be written in C". In defiance of that s
by mikewarot 3y ago
Long ago, when OS/2 came out, a friend relayed to me that "You can't write programs in assembler for OS/2, they have to be written in C".
In defiance of that statement, I built Forth/2.[1] It was a direct threaded, native code Forth Compiler for OS/2 written in assembler. Brian Matthewson wrote an amazing manual for it, and it found a few dozen users.
[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/forth2/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/forth2/