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by lebuffon 5y ago
Open Firmware written by Mitch Bradley is actually just a byte-code Forth custom extended to be the system firmware. :) So it's not that the language was specified but rather the language is the Firmware. By using byte-codes for the F
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by lebuffon 5y ago
It won't be extremely fast. This was discussed in comp.lang.forth a few years back. It's very interesting as an instructional tool but is not optimal for GForth. For example the symbol table is written in Forth whereas it would be
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by lebuffon 6y ago
An old book "The Fifth Generation Fallacy" (Unger) addresses this somewhat. As I recall it speaks about the desire by the Japanese leadership of the time to build AI translation and related it to the challenge of full literacy in
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Franck done this already for you: http://www.oforth.com/ Also look at another next generation concatentive language: https://8th-dev.com/ Not object-oriented per se but a very comprehensive protected hi-lev
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524Kbytes of RAM and 8Mb of "bulk storage"
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But I understood "2 ounces, 4 drams and 5 grains" to be a single measurement. Correct. Three columns required, similar to the old British money system of Pounds, Shillings and Pence.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
The elephant in the room is that some cultures consider dogs unclean. What to do when you as the driver, are a member of that culture and the rider wants to bring a dog into your taxi. I suspect a royal chaos ensues...
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by lebuffon 6y ago
"I been rich an' I been poor and rich is better" Ella Fitzgerald
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by lebuffon 6y ago
During Canada's transition to metric in the 1970's a lady called into the local radio station's call in program. She issued a challenge to anyone who supported the English system to call with the answer to this question: What
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by lebuffon 6y ago
It's worth remembering that large groups of fundamentalist Christians left Europe to go to the "new world" to escape actual persecution or the perception that they were not free to express their form of Christianity. Culture
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by lebuffon 6y ago
This photo gives some perspective https://globalnews.ca/news/7719176/suez-canal-ship-digger-ex...
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Unicode lets you record the data but does not address the societal problem of record keeping in a way that all staff can use. British Columbia has a very large population of Chinese speakers. If you allow multiple language script for every
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Just to show how language affects understanding, the word "charity" comes from the Latin caritas meaning something from the heart. The semitic word used where English uses charity means more like justice or "do the right thin
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by lebuffon 6y ago
This is interesting. https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ In 1913 dollars a 10 cent can of soup is $2.66 USD today. So at $1.00 in 2021 its a bargain. :) I think modern manufacturing processes have made common items cheap
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Indeed the warming is a natural event. The glaciers melted long before humanity could make any difference. The new bit is that we are helping it along at what is probably an unprecedented rate. So it's not about the change. It is about
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by lebuffon 6y ago
"ancient history starts from the beginning of writing or recorded history" Perhaps an unconscious bias of literate cultures. In the Canadian high arctic years ago, scientists discovered evidence of "paleo-eskimo" (bad na
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Made me chuckle too. In Montreal or Frankfurt the question would be "Why would you have lunch without your favourite beverage"? The Puritans influence seems to have a long reach. (?)
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Interesting that there are few comments here. :)
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Very nice picture, but how does this advance the "flat earth theory"? :)
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... and Forth :)
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The amateur radio frequencies that are "legal" for a ham operator to transmit on are well defined. If the NASA devices used Amateur frequencies for commercial work I believe they would be breaking US law as well. So the terms of t
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by lebuffon 6y ago
And for those interested in an FPGA version with similar features, check out the J1 and J1B (32 bit) CPUs by James Bowman. Remarkable machines in 200(ish) lines of Verilog.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
The Fedex handheld terminal was re-written in Forth... twice. :) First time all the features wouldn't fit. Forth re-write fit with room to spare. (factoring is easy in Forth) New Hardware! Everything fit but batteries didn't last
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Or... is it possible that we are not supposed to meet the "others? Consider: If you wanted to build a "terrarium" for sentient evolving life forms how would you keep them from escaping? 1. Make the distances really really big
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Even "Communist" China now has a capitalist economy. :) But they don't have a Democratic government. What should we call that? Totalitarian Capitalism? "wiggle room" Exactly right. I liken it to a control that you
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Consider the farmer with a combine or 4 wheel drive tractor at $250K..$350K per unit. And the crops need to come off this week or we loose $2.5M but the company says ship it to Kansas city for repair so we can upload the new software...
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by lebuffon 6y ago
My explanation is that they abandoned the "buckets" that people put countries into when they talk about governance. It's not communism. It's also not democracy. They picked dictatorial government and matched it with unbr
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by lebuffon 6y ago
"you shouldn't be able to add code on the fly". Unless you call them plug-ins. :)
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Not so much now perhaps but a digital Yuan exists. Where that is headed is not clear but it has the possibility of disrupting the current order.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Forth's answer to your need is: Write your own higher level utilities in Forth. :) I find it better to think of Forth as a clever Macro Assembly language for a two stack VM. When used as designed, one does not actually program in Fort

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