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From: jrferro@gaak.lcs.mit.edu (Jon R Ferro)
Subject: Forth implementations and/or standards
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Organization: MIT Transportation Modelling Research Center
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 19:00:47 GMT
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In article <1991Mar25.211343.4868@NCoast.ORG> dale@NCoast.ORG (Dale Smith) writes:
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>Dr. Pepper, Forth and EMACS!  A man after my own heart!

And mine!  (I have a theory that these three preferences are genetically
linked.  Do you like rollercoasters also?)

But seriously, I am interested in implementing Forth on a small
(possibly home-built) microcomputer for experimenting with some
real-time control applications and purely as a programming exercise.
Without getting too involved in the ongoing discussion of the merits of
various implementations and standards for Forth, I would like some
information on the "most standard" standards to be used as a base system
and some common extensions used for this type of application.  I would
especially be interested in documents (e.g. the '83 standard) available
in archives via anonymous ftp.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

-Jon

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Jon Ferro			Transportation Modelling Research Center
jrferro@gaak.lcs.mit.edu	"We can hack it!"
