22 Sep
2013
22 Sep
'13
8:06 p.m.
On 09/22/2013 07:49 PM, dwight elvey wrote:
Although, not what your thinking of, there were
several
Forth engines made.
Most of the low level words were single instructions.
In fact many low level words were often combined
as single instructions.
It still needed the string interpreter for interactive
but compiled was mostly values that translated
direct to execution.
Western Digital had the WD90 that implemented P-code. But again, just
P-code and not a lexical parser/compiler per se.
There's an exceedingly fine line between firmware and microprogramming.
--Chuck