31 Jan
2005
31 Jan
'05
4:55 a.m.
Hi,
Huw Davies said:
OK, to add a little bit of CC to this. ISTR that Forth was originally
developed on PDP-11s but what other classic hardware of the era was it
used? Which of these will fit inside the Golf :-)
Actually ISTR that it was originally developed on an IBM 1130, which
is how it became to be called Forth. The 1130 was described as a "third
generation computer" and Chuck Moore considered his language a "fourth
generation computer language" and wanted to call it "Fourth". But the
1130 only permitted five character identifiers, so it became "Forth".
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