FORTH for 1130

Mark Waterbury

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Aug 15, 2024, 2:20:41 PM8/15/24

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Was anyone able to get the original FORTH by Charles Moore from 1968 "up and running" on the 1130 simulator?

Please advise, thanks.

Charles Anthony

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Aug 15, 2024, 2:33:47 PM8/15/24

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Yes. I have the assembly portion up, running and tested. The FORTH source portion complex, but is only partially tested due to the lack of documentation about what they are supposed to do.

https://gitlab.com/unused0/protoforth

-- Charles

Charles Anthony

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Aug 15, 2024, 3:06:26 PM8/15/24

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If you want to run it on SIMH, you need to get a recent OpenSIMH; it has a bug fix that I submitted.

-- Charles

Carl Claunch

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Aug 16, 2024, 6:33:30 PM8/16/24

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The assembler part worked well, but the proto-Forth itself is not complete. There is no means of showing the value as it pops out of the stack. I found defects in a couple of the dictionary entries and had to correct them to get it mostly working.

Carl

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