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                Publications by Bradford J. Rodriguez

     updated 25 Feb 2023 (added A Threaded Microprogram Machine)

A selection of papers I have published, seminars I have presented,
and computer programs I have written, that are available on this
site. Please note that many of the papers include illustrations --
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Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels

This series originally appeared in The Computer Journal. Accompanying
source code can be found on the CamelForth page.

  * Part 1: Design Decisions in the Forth Kernel (33K text, 21K
    images)
  * Part 2: Benchmarks and Case Studies of Forth Kernels (31K text)
  * Part 3: Demystifying DOES> (48K text, 45K images)
  * Part 4: Assemble or Metacompile? (8K text)
  * Part 5: The Z80 Primitives (9K text, 38K linked files)
  * Part 6: The Z80 High-level Kernel (20K text, 36K linked files)
  * Part 7: CamelForth for the 8051 (12K text, 5K images)
  * Part 8: CamelForth for the 6809 (10K text, 33K linked files)
  * Multitasking 8051 CamelForth (23K PDF file)

Multiprocessing for the Impoverished: a multi-6809 system

This series originally appeared in The Computer Journal.

  * Part 1: A 6809 Uniprocessor (28K text, 37K linked PDF files)
  * Part 2: Sharing the Bus (18K text, 44K images)
  * Part 3: Mid-Course Corrections (21K text, 156K linked PDF file)
  * Part 4: The IBM PC Bus (21K text, 156K linked PDF file)
  * Part 5: Serial I/O (34K text, 163K linked PDF files)

An Embedded Temporal Expert For Control of a Tandem Accelerator

My 1997 Ph.D. dissertation at McMaster University.

Summary articles.

  * A System for Distributed Inferencing (with W.F.S. Poehlman) [1996
    Rochester Forth Conference] (24K text, 77K linked files)

Full text of dissertation.  These are all PDF files and require
Adobe's Acrobat Reader.

  * Front matter (abstract, acknowledgments, table of contents, list
    of figures; 20K)
  * Chapter 1: Introduction (17K)
  * Chapter 2: Literature Review (40K)
  * Chapter 3: An Embedded Temporal Expert System (43K)
  * Chapter 4: Controlling the FN Accelerator (85K)
  * Chapter 5: Expert System Performance (26K)
  * Chapter 6: Accelerator Control Performance (259K)
  * Chapter 7: Summary and Conclusions (9K)
  * Bibliography (35K)
  * Appendix A: Instrumenting the FN Accelerator (140K)
  * Appendix B: Asynchronous Token Ring Communications (35K)
  * Appendix C: Toward a Distributed, Object-Based Forth (29K)
  * Appendix D: The Inferencing Token Language (9K)
  * Appendix E: Accelerator Control Program (13K)
  * Appendix F: Towers of Hanoi Benchmark (11K)
  * Appendix G: Glossary of Abbreviations (4K)

PatternForth: A Pattern-Matching Language for Real-Time Control

My 1989 M.S. dissertation at Bradley University.

Full text of dissertation. These are HTML files with GIF images.

  * A. Introduction (7K)
  * B. Project Scope (8K)
  * C. Dynamic Memory Management (19K, 15K linked images)
  * D. Associative String Access (39K, 26K linked images)
  * E. Pattern Matching (44K, 64K linked images)
  * F. Pattern and String Operations (14K)
  * G. Conclusions (1K)
  * H. References (6K)
  * I. Figures (2K, 105K linked images)
  * Appendix A. PatternForth Glossary (21K)
  * Appendix B. The Program Listing (pending)

Miscellaneous Papers

  * Forth Multitasking in a Nutshell [from The Computer Journal #58]
    (50K text)
  * Asynchronous Serial I/O With The PSC1000 [1998 FORML conference]
    (29K text, 9K images), and program listing.
  * The "Ztar" MIDI Controller [1998 FORML conference] (12K text,
    101K image)
  * Object Oriented Forth and Building Automation Control[1998 FORML
    conference] (24K text)
  * A Survey of Object-Oriented Forths (with W.F.S. Poehlman) [from
    ACM SIGPLAN Notices 31:4] (17K text, 45K images)
  * A Minimal TTL Processor for Architecture Exploration [1994 ACM
    Symposium on Applied Computing] (17K text, 22K images, 93K linked
    PDF file)
  * A Threaded Microprogram Machine An earlier article about the
    PISC-1, with a more complete explanation of how it operates. (27K
    test file, best viewed in a monospace font) NEW
  * The Echelon Lighting Control System [1992 Rochester Forth
    Conference] (27K text, 25K images)
  * A BNF Parser in Forth [from ACM SIGForth Newsletter 2:2] (27K
    text)
     
  * Build Your Own (Cross-) Assembler...in Forth[from The Computer
    Journal #52] (33K text)
  * Build Your Own Assembler, Part 2: a 6809 Forth Assembler[from The
    Computer Journal #54] (21K text)
  * 6809 Forth Assembler Listing [from The Computer Journal #54] (11K
    text)

You can also see the master index of everything I have written, on or
                            off the web.
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Computer Programs

  * CamelForth for the 6809, with Chromium metacompiler
  * CamelForth for the 8051, w/multitasker
  * CamelForth for the Z80 under CP/M
  * CamelForth for the 8086 under MS-DOS

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