16 Jan
2024
16 Jan
'24
7:29 a.m.
On Jan 16, 2024, at 10:13 AM, Johan Helsingius via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 16/01/2024 16:04, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
I suppose it's easier on byte-oriented machines but it seems doable on others. ANSI
FORTH may be helpful for this, since it explicitly distinguishes between "character
address" and "cell address" (meaning word address).
Consider also that Bowman's J-1 FORTH processor is a word-oriented machine. His
presentation slides don't even mention character words at all.
paul
FORTH by its nature actually fits well in Harvard
architectures.
Indeed - but it really doesn't fit machines that aren't byte-oriented.
I started on porting FIG-FORTH to the PDP-10 architecture but quickly
abandoned the effort...