RE: Forth interpreter as kernel module

[M. Edward Borasky]

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> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Rick A. Hohensee
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> Subject: Forth interpreter as kernel module

> Phil Burk is I believe still affiliated with Mills College. He'd love to
> hear about this. Mike Haas too, probably. Mike Haas wrote the kernel of
> Amiga JForth and Phil wrote all the music stuff. I added all the Linux
> syscalls to the PForth in cLIeNUX mostly out of nostalgia for JForth, a
> "...once in a paradigm thing." Jack "jax" Woehr (sp?). Phil was quite
> pleased to hear there's a PForth out there with 160 Linux syscalls as
> primitives.

Yes, Phil Burk is still doing music ... no, he's not doing it in Forth, but
in Java. Hunt up "jmsl" and "jsyn" for the details. I haven't heard much
from Jack recently; I have his book which had an ANS-ish 16-bit DOS Forth on
a floppy. At one time, I was doing some absolutely *amazing* things with
16-bit Forths on my HP100LX Palmtop PC. Still, I must confess I haven't been
to the Taygeta Scientific Forth archive in over a year.

> More to the point, Forth can be a great personalizer of unix/Linux. Sure,
> you don't want a Forth in your DNS box. (I do, but...) You do want a Forth
> in your multimedia box. Bigtime. Which is why the "forth" command in
> cLIeNUX is upforth, PForth with a unix Jones.

Well, I want a full-strength Forth in my Linux box -- I've got SwiftForth
Pro on my Windows system and I'm holding out for something of that
comprehensive nature on Linux. I have to admit I haven't played with the
gForth that I think comes with my Red Hat distro, so I don't know what it's
like. I've heard hard-core Forthers gag profusely at the mere mention of
gForth.

So, enough "old Forthers home week" on the Linux kernel mailing list, eh?

: TOOT FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN ;
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