5 Mar
2001
5 Mar
'01
8:28 a.m.
Hi
There were several Forth machines made. I have a Delta
board made by Silicon Composers that use a NC4000 chip.
There are several other chips out there that are either
directly intetended for Forth or have enhanced instructions
to improve threading speed ( such as the Super 8 ).
I've added things to my machine over the years. I've used
old XT boards to have 2 floppies and an old 5 Meg hard drive.
Of course, I've had to rewrite code to access these things
because the NC4000 is in no way compatable with Intels
machines. Its is a fun project. With the hard drive, I can
completely recompile a new image for the EPROMs in about
15 secs.
Dwight
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Scott Guthery wrote:
I'm making a list of the processors and computers
that in one way or another tried to directly execute
a high-level programming language. Here's what I have
so far.
Algol60 - Burroughs 5500
Pascal P-Code - Western Digital Pascal Microengine, Perq
Lisp - Symbolics, Lisp Machine, and many others
Ada - Intel 432
Java - picoJava
Modula M-Code - Lilith
Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Scott
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