Hi Erich, >> 3. Matthias wanted AmForth to be as close to the standard as >> plausible. Of course there are differences, like the @e !e @i !i >> Variants of @ and !. That is attributed to being close to the >> hardware. Otherwise Matthias spent a lot of time to get AmForth >> close to the standard.
This was the most important aspect of AmForth, the actual hardware target is not as important as this. I am always amazed at how forth (with its many variants) has survived the test of time. Many hardware platforms have come and gone but forth is still here. The abstraction layer that I talked about isolates the hardware dependencies to keep changes to a minimum. What you want is being close to an acceptable standard. My application needs to run on a large number of nodes which could involve many different platforms on a network. It is interesting that the AmForth site (Commented Projects) has a link (put there by Matthias?) that parallels what is being done (but not with Wifi, RF or ethernet), experimentally of course. http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/euroforth/ef15/genproceedings/papers/peri.pdf Again I appreciate your input, Regards, John S On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM Carsten Strotmann via Amforth-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Friday 30 January 2026 06:51:32 PM (+01:00), Erich Wälde wrote: > > > 2. Matthias started out with an indirect threaded code model, > > because he understood, how it worked. Making this thing fast was > > not high on the list. At the time he started there was a series > > of articles in the "Vierte Dimension" magazine, on how to > > construct a Forth from scratch. It was written by Ron Minke > > around 2005/2006. > > > https://forth-ev.de/wiki/vd-archiv > > Unfortunately the links seem broken ... I have to tell -mk. > > > > I can bring light into this issue: because Forth-Gesellschaft has been > sued over the use of one picture in the VD magazine, for legal reasons the > PDF download versions are not freely available anymore. The case has not > been settled, but as a precaution the PDFs have been de-published. > > They will be available for members of Forth Gesellschaft in the future, > we're working on a new system with authentication. > > I'm not sure if Forth Gesellschaft will risk allowing non-members in, as > this incident almost killed Forth Gesellschaft financially. > > If someone here wishes to support work on Forth publications, maybe > consider becoming a member. There is (was?) an English translated version > of the magazine in addition to the German edition. > > Greetings > > > Carsten > (who will be @ FOSDEM, in the Retro-Computer Devroom on Sunday, in case > someone want's to meet and talk some Forth) > > -- > strotmann.de > > > _______________________________________________ > Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel > _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
