Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.yosemite.net!cyclone-transit.snfc21.pbi.net!131.119.28.147!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!paloalto-snh1.gtei.net!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!sn-inject-01!corp.supernews.com!sabik.taygeta.com!jon
From: [email protected] (J. D. Verne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,comp.answers,news.answers
Subject: comp.lang.forth FAQ: Online Resources (2 of 7)
Supersedes: <[email protected]>
Followup-To: comp.lang.forth
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 11:42:58 GMT
Organization: The Forth Interest Group
Lines: 400
Approved: [email protected]
Expires: 08 Aug 00 11:44:02
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected] (FAQ maintainers list)
Keywords: FAQ FORTH FIG
X-Complaints-To: [email protected]
Distribution: world
Originator: [email protected]
Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.lang.forth:58495 comp.answers:41429 news.answers:186958

Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3 (Perl 5.004)
Archive-name: computer-lang/forth-faq/part2
Posting-Frequency: Monthly.  A how-to-find-the-FAQ article is posted weekly.

 comp.lang.forth Frequently-Asked Questions, part 2 of 7
 Online Resources: Web, FTP and Email
 John D. Verne <[email protected]>
 Last modified: $Date: 1999/07/23 02:27:09 $

 A concise guide to Forth related online resources.  Send additions,
 deletions or changes to John D. Verne <mailto:[email protected]>.  Please
 see the Forth Online Resources Quick-Reference Card <http://www.com-
 plang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/forl.html>.  A detailed hardcopy version with
 additional data is available in Forth Dimensions
 <http://www.forth.org/> magazine.
 ______________________________________________________________________

 Table of Contents


 1. Introduction

 2. Personal and Commercial WWW Servers

 3. Public File Repositories

 4. News and Email Resources

    4.1 Internet Mailing Lists
    4.2 Commonly Requested Email Addresses
    4.3 Newsgroups and Conferences

 5. Bulletin-Board Systems (BBS)



 ______________________________________________________________________

 1.  Introduction


 This is part two of a seven part document covering many aspects of the
 Forth programming language.  All seven parts are posted monthly to the
 USENET newsgroups comp.lang.forth, comp.answers, and news.answers.
 They are updated regularly.

 This part is primarily concerned with being a concise quick-reference
 guide to the many online Forth resources available.  Specifically, it
 attempts to answer the questions, "Where can I find the Forth
 resource...?".

 For more information on Forth or other Forth resources, please consult
 the other parts of this FAQ.  They can be found at:


 o  <http://www.forth.org/fig.html>

 o  <ftp://ftp.forth.org/pub/Forth/FAQ/>


 This document was adopted in it's entirety from the "online" FAQ
 created by Kenneth O'Heskin.

 To request a change or report an error, please contact the author
 <mailto:[email protected]>.

 This document is placed entirely in the public domain.  You may quote
 freely from it, as long as you play nice and give us some credit.
 This document comes with no guarantees and is provided for your
 information only.  Trademarks are the property of their respective
 owners.  Your mileage may vary etc., etc., etc.



 2.  Personal and Commercial WWW Servers

 These sites are primarily Forth-oriented.  Some are very product
 specific, while others are more for general programming interest.  If
 you find any broken links or know of any pages that need to be
 included here, please let me know <mailto:[email protected]>.


 o  The ATLAST <http://www.fourmilab.ch> (Autodesk Threaded Language
    application System Toolkit) embedded system pages.  You can
    download ATLAST from here, as well.

 o  The Bournemouth Forth Redearch Page
    <http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/index.html>.  Links to the
    Journal of Applied Forth and Research (JFAR), FAQs, Rochester Forth
    Conference and more.  Very complete Forth bibliography.

 o  euroFORTH <http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/euro/index.html>, The
    European Forth Conference home page.  Access to the latest news on
    the conference, as well as links to the euroFORTH mail list
    archives.

 o  Forth Interest Group <http://www.forth.org/fig.html> (FIG) home
    page.  FIG membership information, FAQs, bibliographies, downloads
    and more.  Information on local chapters and a members-only
    section.  Home of "Forth Dimensions" magazine.

 o  The FORTH, Inc. <http://www.forth.com> Home Page is a commercial
    site dedicated to FORTH, Inc.'s very complete product line.
    Ordering and training information available online.

 o  Frank Sergeant's <http://www.eskimo.com/~pygmy/forth.html> home
    page.  The author of Pygmy Forth has many articles and links
    available on his pages.

 o  Immersive Systems, Inc. <http://www.immersive.com> have links and
    technical information about Meme, their Forth-powered extensible
    virtual reality product.

 o  Forth Research at Institut fuer Computersprachen
    <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html> has
    technical documents, Forth code and many Forth links.  Some
    downloads available.

 o  Jeff Fox's UltraTechnology <http://www.ultratechnology.com/> Home
    page.  Home of Offete Enterprises, Inc. and the source for
    information about the MuP21 Forth engine.  Books, video tapes and a
    diverse range of software available.

 o  The Journal of Forth Application and Research
    <http://www.jfar.org/index.html> and it's UK mirror
    <http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/jfar/index.html>, published by
    the Institute for Applied Research, Inc.  Author's guides and
    ordering information available.

 o  Laboratory Microsystems Inc. (LMI) <http://www.cerfnet.com/~lmi>
    have an online catalog and software updates for their wide range of
    Forth systems.

 o  The Forth Source <http://www.theforthsource.com> is the home of
    Mountain View Press.  Tutorials, educational software and guides.
    The Forth education source.
 o  The Mops Page <http://www.netaxs.com/~jayfar/mops.html> is the
    place for FAQs and information on Mops Forth for the Mac.  Plenty
    of documentation and code available.

 o  New Micros Inc. (NMI) <http://www.newmicros.com/> publish
    information and an online catalog for their range of Forth-powered
    Single-Board Computers.

 o  FirmWorks <http://www.firmworks.com> is the source for information
    on Open Firmware.  Dedicated to the development of the IEEE 1275
    standard.  If you need information on Open Firmware, start here.

 o  Patriot Scientific Corporation <http://www.ptsc.com> publishes
    information on their PSC1000 (ShBoom) 32-bit RISC microprocessor
    family, as well as their many other products.  Some Forth
    information links.

 o  Phil Koopman's <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~koopman> Home Page has
    extensive links to Forth, stack computers and embedded systems.
    Several articles and technical papers are publicly available.

 o  The Pocket Forth Page <http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/pocket.html>,
    home of Pocket Forth for the Mac.  Tutorials, downloads and code
    examples abound.

 o  The Rochester Forth Conference
    <http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/rfc/index.html>, organized by
    the Institute for Applied Forth Research (JFAR), Inc.  This is the
    place for Conference proceedings.

 o  The Rocky Coast Free Board <http://www.well.com/~jax/rcfb/> is the
    web incarnation of the RCFB dialup BBS.  Lots of information on
    Forth, Java and programming.

 o  The home of JForth <http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jforth/> for the
    Amiga has FAQs, news and downloads.

 o  The Computer Journal <http://www.psyber.com/~tcj/> is a good place
    for legacy system information.  Very Forth-friendly publication.

 o  Tout sur le Forth <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mp7/> en France, the
    source for French-language Forth resources.

 o  Visit Triangle Digital Services, Ltd.
    <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/triangle> for information
    on their Forth-powered Single-Board Computers.  Very complete
    online catalog.




 3.  Public File Repositories

 These sites offer anonymous FTP access to Forth files and resources.
 URLs can change rapidly.  Please let me know <mailto:[email protected]> if
 you find broken links, or know of more Forth-oriented FTP sites.


 o  Official ANS Forth x3j14 <ftp://ftp.uu.net/> Committee ftp site.
    This is where to get the (un)official ANS-Forth documents.  [need
    to find exact link --jdv]

 o  Cygnus Support FTP Service <ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/forth/> is a
    huge ftp site with many Forth systems available.


 o  Brad Rodriguez' CamelForth can be downloaded from here
    <ftp://ftp.zetetics.com/camel/>.  You may also want to visit the
    CamelForth web site <http://www.zetetics.com/camel/>.

 o  The University of Michigan Department of Physics has a few Forth
    implementations available here
    <ftp://williams.physics.lsa.umich.edu/pub/forth>.

 o  Dwight Elvey <ftp://ftp.hal.com/pub/elvey> has made a few Forth
    resources available.

 o  Marcel Hendrix <ftp://iaehv.iaehv.nl/pub/users/mhx> has an
    extensive collection of Forth implementations available to the
    public.

 o  Taygeta Scientific, Inc is the host of forth.org
    <ftp://ftp.forth.org/pub/Forth>.  This is simply the most complete
    collection of Forth resources out there.  [need Bremen mirror
    address --jdv]

 o  This is the place for Yerk <ftp://astro.uchicago.edu/pub/MAC/Yerk>
    (Forth for the Mac) manuals, information and code.



 4.  News and Email Resources


 4.1.  Internet Mailing Lists

 [Anybody care to expand on this list? --jdv]


 o  To subscribe to the MISC mailing list <mailto:misc-
    [email protected]> send an email with "subscribe" in the
    text.

 o  To subscribe to the Win32For mailing list <mailto:win32for-
    [email protected]>, send an email with "subscribe"
    as the only line in the body of the message.

 o  To subscribe to the euroFORTH <mailto:euroforth-
    [email protected]> mail list, just send an empty message.

 o  To subscribe to any of the following Forth mailing lists, send an
    email <mailto:[email protected]> with the appropriate
    subscribe line as the only text in the body:


 o  subscribe BigForth  (BigForth list)

 o  subscribe GForth  (GForth list)

 o  subscribe Minos

 o  subscribe JForth-List  (Amiga JForth List)

 o  subscribe 4th-List  (Original 4th learning list)



 4.2.  Commonly Requested Email Addresses

 These are the most commonly requested email addresses on
 comp.lang.forth.

 o  For information on the ANS Forth process, please contact the
    ANSForth Mail Group <mailto:ansforth-request@minerva>

 o  To contact the Forth FAQ authors, or request a change the the FAQ,
    please email the Forth FAQ Maintainers <mailto:[email protected]>

 o  The Forth Interest Group <http://www.forth.org/> (FIG):

 o  FIG Board of Directors <mailto:[email protected]>  (everyone)

 o  Forth Dimensions Editor <mailto:[email protected]>  (Marlin
    Ouverson)

 o  FIG business office <mailto:[email protected]>  (John Hall)

 o  FIG President <mailto:[email protected]>  (Skip Carter)

 o  FIG Secretary <mailto:[email protected]>  (Brad Rodriguez)

 o  FIG Treasurer <mailto:[email protected]>  (Andrew McKewan)

 o  FIG Vice President <mailto:[email protected]>  (Jeff Fox)

 o  Secretary of the FORTH Gesellschaft <mailto:[email protected]
    ev.de> (German Forth users' group)

 o  Editor of the Journal of Forth Application and Research
    <mailto:[email protected]>


 4.3.  Newsgroups and Conferences

 These are the primary Forth newsgroups and public conferences.  Please
 let me know <mailto:[email protected]> if you know of any others.
 Specifically, I know there are several non-English Forth newsgroups.
 Does anyone care to comment?


 o  The unmoderated comp.lang.forth <news:comp.lang.forth> USENET
    newsgroup is carried on most newsfeeds.  Archived messages
    <ftp://asterix.inescn.pt/pub/forth/news/> are available.  [need to
    find good archive URL --jdv]

 o  Macintosh specific Forth news is found on the unmoderated
    comp.lang.forth.mac <news:comp.lang.forth.mac> newsgroup.



 5.  Bulletin-Board Systems (BBS)

 These are the publicly available Forthish Bulletin-Board Systems that
 we still know about.  This information is presented for legacy reasons
 only.  The status of these numbers is unknown.  I'm starting to feel
 all nostalgic about my first 300 baud modem...


 o  Arcane Incantations, 617-899-6672

 o  Art of Programming BBS, 604-826-9663

 o  Bitter Butter Better BBS, 503-691-7938

 o  Gold Country Forth BBS, 916-652-7117

 o  Laboratory Microsystems, Inc (LMI), 310-306-3530

 o  MindLink <telnet://mindlink.bc.ca>, 604-528-3500

 o  The FROG Pond BBS, 716-461-1924



 End of file

You are viewing proxied material from ftp.icm.edu.pl. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.