24 Jun
2002
24 Jun
'02
8:24 p.m.
Hi,
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) said:
[PDP11]
Someone sent me a couple of zip files with PDP-11 Forth some time back.
I've not done anything with it yet - been busy.
It's in the PD and by FIG, and will run stand-alone (allegedly...).
Mostly MACRO code.
Anyones welcome to a copy. of course.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Forth! There's a bootable forth around?
That'd be fantastic...
There _was_...
FIG Forth was available for the PDP11 at one time, and at least one
varient included a small bootstrap which pulled the Forth kernel, etc
into memory. Disk access was then via the standard 1K 'screens'.
I think the only disk it supported (both for booting and for
reading/writing screens) was the RX01 (and maybe later the RX02). It
would be possible to modify the disk I/O code to handle other devices, I
guess.
There was also a version that ran under RT11 and used an RT11 file as a
'virtual disk' to store the screens. This is the only version I've ever
seen, and not having an RT11 license I can't run it.
If anyone knows the whereabouts of the standalone version I am
interested. I am pretty sure it was Public Domain (most FIG Forths are).