Hi Bruce,
Your reply to Fabio, re-shuffled things in my head. I have very limited experience with programming, with 2 different varieties of Assembly, as well as Fortran and Basic. When I found out the DP was written with Forth, I looked at the Forth websites. I remembered that Lew had mentioned writing his own compiler, and in the Forth info, they talked about being able to write not only the compiler, but the interpreter as well. What I had never put together was that the source code generated the .exe file with the compiler. The light bulb flashed in my head. This eureka moment won't make any difference to me, except that I have a better understanding of how Lew worked his magic. Thanks, Rich ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Fabio Muller <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Dataperfect and Windows 64bit Win7 Great privilege indeed, not a simple thing to write you compiler, just a few did that. Does anybody talked with Lew about the source code ? Like make it available to everybody or not ? Brgds... On 12/08/2015 15:38, Bruce Conrad wrote: Hi Danny, I have had the privilege of working with Lew Bastian many years ago, and have seen the source code. It includes its own assembler and compiler, and itself generates the EXE file. So, unfortunately, there is no easy path to a 32 or 64 bit version... So far as I know, only Lew has a copy of the source code. Best wishes, Bruce
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