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       comp.lang.forth Frequently Asked Questions, part 5 of 6
                  Books, Periodicals, and Tutorials

                      Chris Jakeman, 3 Dec 1999

 Changes since the previous posting are marked with a "|".
 Please send your updates, comments or suggestions to me
 at [email protected]

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| Subject: Table of Contents

       [1] Books - Organisation
       [2] Books - Tutorial
       [3] Books - Advanced
       [4] Books - Related
       [5] Periodicals
       [6] Standards Documents
       [7] On-line - Tutorials
       [8] Other documents
       [9] Suppliers
|      [10] Libraries
      [11] Indexes

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Subject: [1] Books - Organisation

There is not space here to provide an abstract to every book on Forth.
Instead this is a guide to those items which Forth users have found
most helpful, together with a list of other Forth books.  If you have
been especially helped by a book, please write me an abstract for it.

Where publications are not widely available, a supplier is listed.
Approximate prices are given as a guide.

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Subject: [2] Books - Tutorial

"Starting FORTH: an introduction to the FORTH language and operating
system for beginners and professionals" Leo Brodie, Prentice Hall 1981
(2nd Ed., 1987), 346 pages, ISBN 0-13-843079-9, price $29.
An ANS version is in preparation.

 Chris Jakeman <[email protected]> writes:
 This is the classic introduction to Forth, with helpful cartoons,
 exercises and solutions.  See also Brodie's "Thinking Forth" below.

 Glen Haydon writes "To try out the exercises, use MVP Forth which
 matches exactly except for ' (tick).  See www.theforthsource.com."
 Forth Guide, from Mountain View Press, is a guide to MVP Forth and
 complements Starting Forth and is available on-line at
 www.theforthsource.com.

 The exercises have also been ported to ANS Forth by Ben Hoyt, see
 ftp.taygeta.com/pub/Forth/Applications/ANS/strtfrth.txt.


"The Forth Programmer's Handbook" E.Conklin & E.Rather, Forth Inc.
1997, 228 pages ISBN 0-9662156-0-5, price $50.

 This book is aimed at experienced programmers new to Forth and is
 more detailed and technical than "Starting Forth".  It is also a
 good reference for ANS Forth.  See www.forth.com for excerpts.


"The Forth Course" Richard Haskell, 156 pages with disk, price $25,
supplier FIG.

 FIG writes:
 This set of 11 lessons is designed to make it easy for you to learn
 Forth.  The material was developed over several years of teaching
 Forth as part of a senior/graduate course in desing of embedded
 software computer systems at Oakland Univeristy in Rochester,
 Michigan.


"FORTH: A Text And Reference" Mahon Kelly and Nick Spies,
Prentice-Hall, 1986, 487pps ISBN 0-13-326331-2 and in hardcover
0-13-326349-5, $19 and $25 from MMS below.

 Dick Miller <[email protected]> writes:
 Very readable, covers beginner level through relatively advanced,
 including Assembler and 8087 math co-processor details, particularly
 appropriate to IBM PC and MMSFORTH, but very strong for general use
 as well.  The only college-level Forth textbook, complete with
 exercises and answers.


"Forth Applications In Engineering And Industry" John Matthews,
Ellis Horwood, 1989 ISBN 0-85312-659-3, price UKP35.
Currently out of print, this book may be available from libraries.

 MPE Ltd. <[email protected]> writes:
 If you are starting out in the field of real-time control of hardware
 using Forth, then this book is for you!  This text covers most
 aspects of real-time control under Forth, from the very basics of
 what Forth is, through to control loops and digital implementations
 of analogue filters.


"Embedded Controller FORTH for the 8051 family" William H. Payne,
Academic Press, 1990, 511 pages with DOS disks, ISBN 0125475705,
price $80 book, $20 disk.

 J. Fulcher, Computing Reviews, 9105-0316 writes:
 ... This hobbyist-style book goes into considerable detail regarding
 the implementation of FORTH on the i8051 family of microcontrollers
 (down to circuit diagrams, PCB layouts, and wire-wrap board
 schematics) ... Almost two-thirds of this book is devoted to
 appendices -- 19 in all.  These primarily contain code listings ...

 Paul Frenger, SIGFORTH, 2(4):31-32, 1990 reviews the book and gives
 it 10/10.  Notes that the book contains everything you need: all the
 source is there as well as all the circuit diagrams.  There are 19
 appendices, which make up half of the book, and contain things like:
 the source to the 8086 Forth, 8051 Forth, full screen editor code,
 8051 disassembler code, Nautilus metacompiler, 8086/8051
 meta-assemblers, Forth decompilers and much more.


"Forth from Inside" Viviane Beullens, on-line only, 1998, 100 pages,
contact [email protected], price $30
 Intended Audience: Beginners in Forth programming
 Reasons to read it: to get started in Forth


 Paul Frenger <[email protected]> writes:
 I just got the Forth Archive CD/ROM from MVP (see section 7) and it's great!
 Glen Haydon also has an excellent collection of Forth books and software,
 much of it seminal (ie: ancient), that FIG no longer carries or never
 carried. His "All About Forth" reference is the single most useful
 Forth-internals book I have ever seen."

Other titles are:
 93, Koller, FORTH und FORTH-Prozessoren, expert-verlag, 3-8169-0785-7
 92, Petremann and Guillaumaud, TURBO-Forth: TFGRAF Manuel du package
     graphique pour TURBO-Forth, MP7
 90, Zech, Forth for Professionals, Ellis Horwood, 0-13-327040-8
 88, Anderson and Tracy, Mastering Forth
 87, Henric-Coll, La Practique du Forth avec Hector I
 87, Zech, Die Programmiersprache FORTH, Franzis-Verlag GmbH Muenchen,
     Recommended by Dusan Vukic <[email protected]>
     and Andreas Jung <[email protected]>
     It describes mainly the Fig-Forth model and goes deeply
     into details. The dialects Forth-79 and Forth-83 are also described
     in a special chapter.
 86, TURBO-Forth: Manuel d'apprentissage, REM Corp
 86, TURBO-Forth: Guide de r�f�rence, REM Corp
 85, Bishop, Exploring Forth, Prentice-Hall, 0-246-12188-2
 85, Burnap, Forth, The Fourth-Generation Language
 85, McCabe, Kevin, et Axel Harvey, _Le_Forth_, 1985, Mount Royal (Quebec),
     Modulo, ISBN 2-89113-048-0; Paris (France), Belin, ISBN 2-7011-0587-0.
 85, Olney and Benson, Fundamental Forth, Pan Books
 85, Petremann, Zupan and Presmenil, FORTH pour CP/M & MSDOS, Loisitech
 85, Salman, Forth, Macmillan 0-333-36798-7
 84, Anderson, Mastering Forth, Bowie (yes, same title as Tracy above :)
 84, Armstrong, Learning Forth
 84, Chirlian, Beginning Forth
 84, Lampton, Forth for Beginners
 84, Oakley, Forth For Micros, Newnes Technical Books, 0-408-01366-4
 84, Petremann and Rousseau, Tours de Forth, Eyrolles
 84, Wainwright, BASIC & Forth In Parallel, Babani (Pub.), 0-85934-113-5
 83, de Grandis-Harrison, Forth on the BBC Microcomputer, 0-907876-06-4
 83, McCabe, Forth Fundamentals, Matrix
 83, Petremann and Rousseau, ZX-FORTH, Eyrolles
 83, Winfield, The Complete Forth, Sigma Technical Press, 0-905104-22-6
 82, Hogan, Discover Forth, Osborne
 82, Scanlon, Forth Programming, Sams
 81, Katzan, Invitation to Forth, Petrocelli Books
 81, Knecht, Introduction To Forth, Sams
 ??, Hendtlass, Real-Time Forth (on-line in Postscript format from
     www.forth.org at ftp://ftp.taygeta.com/pub/Forth/Literature/rtf5pps.zip
 ??, Pitman, Pocket Guide to Forth


 MVP-Forth Series
 1 - All About Forth, '90, Haydon
 2 - MVP Forth source listings, '83?, Haydon & Kuntz
 3 - Integer and Floating Point, '83, Koopman
 4 - Expert System, '84, Park
 5 - File Management System, '84, Moreton
 6 - Expert Tutorial, '84, Derick
 7 - Forth Guide, '85, Haydon
 8 - IBM Professional Application Development System, '85, Wempe
 9 - Word Processor And Calculator, Programmers Guide, '85, Wempe
10 - Word Processor And Calculator, File & Print source, '85, Wempe

See also the FAQ: on-line - part 2/6, for tutorials and Forth systems to
try them on.

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Subject: [3] Books - Advanced

"Scientific FORTH: a modern language for scientific computing"
 Julian V. Noble, Mechum Banks Publishing, 1992, 300 pages,
 ISBN 0-9632775-0-2, price $50 incl. disk.
(1st Ed. sold out, FIG still has a few, also Peer-To-Peer
 Communications Inc, San Jose CA at $40 without disk)

 Julian V. Noble <[email protected]> writes:
 While not intended for the Forth novice, Scientific FORTH contains a
 good many serious examples of Forth programming style, useful programs,
 as well as innovations intended to simplify number crunching in Forth.
 It can now be found in the libraries of several major universities
 (e.g. Yale, U. of Chicago and Rockefeller U.) and government and
 industrial laboratories (e.g. Fermilab and Motorola).  It comes with a
 disk containing all the programs discussed in the book.


"Thinking FORTH" Leo Brodie, Prentice Hall, 1984, ??? pages,
ISBN: 0-13-917576-8 and 0-13-917568-7 (pbk.), price $20.

 Dick Miller <[email protected]> writes:
 This is a top-notch book on strategy, and always was our [MMS] top
 recommendation for the SECOND book, after you bought a textbook to
 learn the Forth words.  This one teaches you which ones to select
 when, how to hone your habits for better Forth (and other)
 programming, etc.  It's been unavailable for a year or two, and has
 been reprinted at last!  MMS has worked to reduce its price from a
 proposed $40 (in paperback), and is pleased to offer it at $19.95.


"Forth: The Next Step" Ron Geere, Addison-Wesley, 1986, 89 pages,
ISBN 0-201-18050-2, price ??.

 Stephen J. Bevan <[email protected]> writes:
 As the title might suggest, this is not for the complete beginner.
 It is aimed at those who have mastered the idea of reverse polish
 ... etc. and now want to do something a bit more complicated.
 Covers areas like: using double length numbers, formatting,
 reading/writing values from/to a port and `infinite' precision
 integers.


"Object-oriented Forth - Implementation of Data Structures" Dick Pountain
Academic Press, 1987, 108 pages, ISBN 0-12-563570-2, price $35.

 Chris Jakeman <[email protected]> writes:
 Pountain <[email protected]> is a Byte contributing editor.  His "book
 sets out to develop systematic ways of constructing complex data
 structures in Forth ... with a few easy to use syntax extensions to
 the language."  Efficient techniques for records and arrays are
 presented and refined with great clarity.  Objects are built from
 these by adding methods with a small change to the dictionary
 structure.  The techniques are demonstrated using lists, a heap and
 a dynamic simulation of queuing at the bank.


"Forth: The New Model - A Programmer's Handbook" Jack Woehr,
M&T Publishing, 1992, 315 pages, ISBN: 0-13-036328-6, DOS disk included,
price $45.

 Describes features of ANS Forth and how to use it to write portable
 Forth programs.  Published 2 years before the Standard was approved,
 it predicts the Standard very closely.  Currently the only book about
 ANS Forth.

 Ong Hian Leong <[email protected]> writes:
 The author is (as at time of print) VP of Forth Interest Group and
 member of X3J14, so he presumably knows what he's talking about. 8-)


Threading mechanisms:
 Stephen Pelc <[email protected]> says "The best analysis of the
 tradeoffs of threaded code and memory performance can be found in
 Interpretation and Instruction Path Coprocessing by Eddy H. Debaere
 and Jan M. Van Campenhout, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-04107-3"

 Mike Coughlin <[email protected]> writes: The best article ever
 published on the subject, "Varieties of Threaded Code for Language
 Implementation" by Terry Riter and Gregory Walker, Byte Magazine,
 Sep. 1980 (not in August which was a special Forth issue) and
 reprinted by FIG along with the other Forth articles from Byte.
 Also available on the Byte CD.

 Also see Anton Ertl's paper at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/
 forth/threaded-code.html

 Neal Crook <[email protected]> recommends "a good paper" by
 Brad Rodriguez, from a series in "The Computer Journal" at
 http://www.zetetics.com/bj/papers/moving1.htm in which he
 specifically addresses the question of choosing a threading model
 for a given processor.

 For some notes on token-threading, try looking at stuff related to
 Brad Eckert's Firmware Factory, at http://www.nakatsu.com/forth/


"Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems" Townsend, Carl,
Feucht, Dennis, TAB Books Inc, 1986, ISBN: 0-8306-2692-1.  Not in print.

 Contains LISP and Prolog emulations in Forth, including a unification
 algorithm.  It also has some minimum distance classifier code. The
 application is fault diagnosis in locomotives.

Carl Townsend & Dennis Feucht, _Designing and Programming Personal Expert
Systems_, Tab Books, 1986.


"eForth Implementation Guide" Dr.C.H. Ting, available from FIG, 54 pages,
$25

 Dave Taliaferro <[email protected]> writes:
 This is a good book for building your own Forth system.  I used this to
 port eForth to a DSP.  Teaches how to build Forth from assembly macros
 and primitives. There are eForth versions for several processors.


Other titles are:
 90, Zech, Forth for Professionals, Ellis Horwood, 0-13-327040-8
       from Computer Literacy on 408-435-0744.  includes a discussion on
       threading mechanisms.
 87, Dr.Dobb's Toolbook of Forth, Vols I & II, M&T Publishing
 86, Reynolds, Advanced Forth, Sigma
 86, Terry, Library of Forth Routines and Utilities
 85, Olney and Benson, Forth Techniques, Pan Books, 0-330-28961-6
 85, Roberts, Forth Applications, ELCOMP Publishing, 3-88963-061-8
 84, Feierbach, Forth Tools and Applications, Reston
 81, Loeliger, Threaded Interpretive Languages, Byte Books, 0-07-038360-x

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Subject: [4] Books - Related

 "FORTH -- A Language for Interactive Computing" C.H.Moore and G.C.Leach,
 1970

 This first paper to use the name "Forth" describes it as it was in 1970.
 There are surprising differences from and surprising similarities with
 modern Forth systems. Available on-line at:
 http://www.dnai.com/~jfox/F70POST.ZIP


"The Evolution Of FORTH - An Unusual Language" C.H.Moore, Byte,
Aug. 1980.

 Forth's history by its creator.


"The Evolution of Forth"  E.D.Rather, D.R.Colburn, C.H.Moore,
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28, No.3 March 1993, 46 pages.

 An larger and more recent history of Forth by the early pioneers.
 This is also available on the Forth Inc. home page at
 http://www.forth.com


"OpenBoot Command Reference" part no: 800-6076-11, revision A, March 1993
 and
"Writing FCode Programs" Sun, sold by the Forth Interest Group.
 It's $50-$60.


"Stack Computers: The New Wave" Phillip Koopman, John Wiley & Sons, 1989,
ISBN 0-470-21467-8, price $82.

 Stephen J. Bevan <[email protected]> writes:
 This isn't a book about Forth, rather it is about computers that
 potentially execute Forth very efficiently.  The book contains a
 detailed overview of a number of Forth chips as well as a potted
 history of what seems to be every stack-based computer ever
 designed.

 Paul Frenger, SIGFORTH, 1(3):28-29, 1989 writes:
 Overall, I highly recommend this book to anyone who programs in
 Forth or any other high level language of whatever variety, or who
 is interested in the hardware details of Forth engines or the
 pitfalls of conventional CPU design.

 Stack Computers is in print from Mountain View Press, see
 http;//theforthsource.com

 The author <[email protected]> reports (July 96):
 My stack computer architecture book has recently gone out of print,
 but I still receive occasional inquiries as to availability. The
 former publisher, Ellis Horwood Ltd., has graciously returned the
 copyright ownership to me.  So, I have decided to place the book
 on-line at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/index.html

 The book contains, among other things, case studies of seven late-80's
 stack computers.  Perhaps there is renewed relevance with Java (and,
 perhaps not -- that question has already been debated at length).
 The book is still copyrighted, but is readable in its entirety from
 the above URL (see the copyright statement at that URL for details).

 I don't have time, and there doesn't seem to be market demand at this
 point, for a revised edition.  However, if you e-mail me pointers to
 web sites that describe newer stack computer information, I will
 consider putting them in the on-line supplement as time permits.


"More on Forth Engines" Dr.C.H.Ting, Editor
 For a description of each issue see:
 http://www.dnai.com/~jfox/offete.html


"Write Your Own Programming Language Using C++" Norman Smith,
Wordware Publishing, Plano, Texas. 108 pages, DOS disk included,
ISBN 1-55622-264-5, price: $15.

 Norman E. Smith <[email protected]> writes:
 This book presents a minimal Forth implementation called Until, for
 UNconventional Threaded Interpretive Language.  Until is designed
 to be used as a macro language embedded in other applications.  It
 can both call and be called by other C functions.

 Chris Jakeman <[email protected]> writes:
 Continued development has enhanced Until since this publication.
 For details of the latest public version, see FAQ: system - part 4/6.


"Thinking Postscript" Glenn Reid, out-of-print but now on-line at
http://www.rightbrain.com/pages/books.html"

 Olivier Lefevre <[email protected]> writes:
 This classic book is not a cookbook but instead goes into
 the philosophy of PostScript, which has much in common with Forth.

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Subject: [5] Periodicals

Forth Dimensions (ISSN 0884-0822)
 Published 6 issues/year to members; Marlin Ouverson, editor
 <[email protected]>.  Subscriptions are US$45/year,
 plus US$15/year for foreign subscriptions.  Forth Interest Group,
 100 Dolores St, Suite 183, Carmel, CA 93923 USA,
|  831 373 6784 FAX: 831 373 2845
|  [email protected]  http://www.forth.org/fig.html

Brad Rodriguez <[email protected]> writes:
 Forth Dimensions is the official publication of the Forth Interest
 Group, and is probably the foremost journal devoted exclusively to the
 Forth language.  It has been in publication since 1979.


FORML and euroForth Conference Proceedings
 Published annually by FIG at $40. FORML is an educational forum for
 sharing and discussing new or unproved proposals intended to benefit
 Forth.  The first conference was held in 1980 and euroForth
 conferences began in 1992.  FIG (above) publishes an index for these.


Rochester Forth Conference
 Published annually by the Institute for Applied Research at $25 to
 $35 (depending on year).
 The conference covers all topics of Forth implementation and
 application.  Conferences began in 1981.
 See http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/rfc/index.html for an index.


Does anyone have information about:
- conferences in Australia, China etc.?


Journal of Forth Application and Research (ISSN 0738-2022)
 Published nominally 4 issues/year;
 Institute for Applied Forth Research Inc.,  Box 1261, Annandale,
 VA 22003, USA.

Peter Knaggs <[email protected]> writes:
 JFAR is the only peer-reviewed Forth journal.  It has been revived
 after a long hiatus, see
 http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/jfar/index.html


The Computer Journal
 Published 6 issues/year; Dave Baldwin, editor <[email protected]>.
 Subscriptions are US$24/year in U.S., US$34/year Canada/Mexico (air
 mail), US$44/year foreign (air mail).  The Computer Journal, P.O. Box
 3900, Citrus Heights, CA 95611-3900 USA, telephone 916-722-4970, fax
 916-722-7480, email [email protected], <http://www.psyber.com/~tcj>.

 Brad Rodriguez <[email protected]> writes:
 The Computer Journal is not a Forth magazine; it is devoted to
 "classic", small, and non-mainstream computers.  It frequently carries
 articles about the Forth language.


ACM SIGPlan Notices
 The ACM SIGPlan Notices journal has a Forth column which appears
 approximately six times a year.
 ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036-5701, 212-869-7440
   Vol.31 No.4,  Apr 96: "Survey of Object Oriented Forths"
   Vol.31 No.4,  Apr 96: "Toward an Object Oriented Forth"
   Vol.31 No.8,  Aug 96: "Thoughts on the 1996 Rochester Forth Conference"
   Vol.31 No.12, Dec 96: "A Whirlwind Tour of Forth Resources"
   Vol.32 No.2,  Feb 97: "Introduction to the Beetle Forth Virtual Processor"
   Vol.32 No.4,  Apr 97: "A Review of Robotics Languages"
   Vol.32 No.6,  Jun 97: "Forth as a Robotics Language"
   Vol.32 No.11, Nov 97: "Venturing Forth with a Flashlight"
   Vol.33 No.2,  Feb 98: "Observations on the EuroForth 97 Conference"
   Vol.33 No.3,  Mar 98: "The Growing Machine, a Pre-Forth Language
                          Implementation"


Some national FIG groups publish their own periodicals, eg
- Forthwrite (ISSN 0265-5195) (6 issues/year) from FIG UK and
- Vierte Dimension (4 issues/year) from Forth-Gesellschaft e.V.

See the FAQ: groups - part 6/6 for details.

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Subject: [6] Standards Documents

For details of the Forth standards see the FAQ: general - part 1/6.

Published standards since 1978 are Forth 79 and Forth 83 from the Forth
Standards Team, ANS Forth - document X3.215-1994 - by the X3J14
Technical Committee and the Open Boot Standard.

The most recent standard, ANS Forth, defines a set of core words and
some optional extensions and takes care to allow great freedom in how
these words are implemented.  The range of hardware which can support an
ANS Forth Standard System is wider than any previous Forth standard and
probably wider than any programming language standard ever.  The
document includes 90 pages of annexes, providing an insight into the
decisions which had to be taken in drafting ANS Forth.

Copies of the standard cost $193 from the American National Standards
Institute Sales Department (212) 642-4900, but the final draft of ANS
Forth is free and available (subject to copyright restrictions) at:
ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/minerva/x3j14/dpans94.zip (Word For Windows, v2)
ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/minerva/x3j14/dpans94.hqx (Word For Macintosh)
ftp://taygeta.com/pub/Forth/Literature/dpans94a.zip (plain ASCII)

ANS Forth was adopted by ISO as an international standard and published
in June 97 as ISO/IEC 15145:1997


The Open Boot Standard defines the use of Forth to configure the
hardware attached to a computer at startup.  It is a token-threaded,
open standard closely modelled on ANS Forth used by Sun, IBM, Motorola
and Apple.  See also section 6 below:

IEEE Std 1275-1994 is recognised as an American National Standard:
"IEEE Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware:
Core Requirements and Practices, IEE Std 1275-1994, 262p,
ISBN 1-55937-426-8, about $60 from IEEE Computer Society at
 The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc.
 345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017-2394, USA,
 voice 1-908-981-1393, fax: 1-908-981-9667, web: http://www.ieee.org,
 email [email protected].

See also the Sun web-site to find:
 docs.sun.com            All manuals from Sun
 playground.sun.com      Holds the working group documents.

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 Subject: [7] On-line Tutorials

 Getting Started with Forth -- www.sunterr.demon.co.uk/guide.htm
 More a guide to getting started than a Forth tutorial, Dave Pochin
 (FIG UK) has published this guide to help you find, install and run
 your first Forth.

 Step-by-step instructions carry you over the pitfalls and get you
 going in the shortest possible time.

 The material is also packaged for easy downloading.


 Julian Noble's Forth Primer (at
 ftp://ftp.forth.org/pub/Forth/Literature/fprimer.zip)
 dates from 1992 and he has now updated it (1999) to suit Win32Forth.
 The new primer is at
 http://Landau1.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551/primer.txt


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 Subject: [8] Other Documents

CHIPS

 For details of the F21 chips, see
 http://pisa.rockefeller.edu:8080/MISC/F21.specs


 For the RTX2010 from Harris Semiconductor, see
 http://www.intersil.com/data/fn/fn3/fn3961/fn3961.pdf
 (Intersil bought the company)

 Except some slight differences in the instruction set, this document
 is applicable to the RTX2000. The processors are pin-compatible.


OPTIMISING

 Bernd Paysan writes "Anton Ertl wrote a paper,
 'RISCs Are Faster Than Stack machines', several years ago - you can
 find it on his homepage, http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/.
 He explains how to write an optimizing Forth compiler that compiles
 to code approximately as good as a good C compiler generates on the
 same machine. RAFTS is well and alive (although it currently
 generates code only for MIPS processors)."


THREADING

 Peter M. Kogge, "An Architectural Trail to Threaded-Code Systems",
 IEEE Computer Journal, Mar 1982, pages 22-32 - Explains the design
 of (a classical implementation of) Forth, starting with threaded
 code, then adding the parameter stack, constants, variables,
 control structures, dictionary, outer interpreter and compiler."


 SB writes: "A most excellent discussion on all threading varieties
 by Brad Rodriquez is at http://www.zetetics.com/bj/papers/moving1.htm
 Be sure to download the Figures showing code layout for each
 threading method."


 Anton Erlt discusses the threading alternatives in
 http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html

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Subject: [9] Suppliers

Brad Rodriguez <[email protected]> writes:
Most of these books and conference proceedings are available from the
Forth Interest Group, P.O. Box 2154, Oakland, CA 94621 USA,
| telephone 831 373 6784, fax 831 373 2845
| [email protected]  and  http://www.forth.org.
| 1999 prices: Starting Forth $50, Thinking Forth $35, $10 p&p

Other suppliers include:
 FORTH Inc. - email to [email protected]

 Miller Microcomputer Services (MMS) - email to [email protected]
 http://MMS.TheMillers.com/mmsforth.html

 Mountain View Press (MVP) - email to [email protected]
 Box 429, Star Route 2 La Honda, CA 94020, voice: 415-747-0760

and, in the UK,
 MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd.(MPE) - email to [email protected]
|  1999 prices: Starting Forth �31.50, Thinking Forth �22, �2 p&p

Why not call them for list of their Forth publications in print?

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| Subject: [10] Libraries
|
| The only lending library dedicated to Forth is run by FIG UK who have
| almost every English language publication including the Brodie books
| and all recent material.
|
| Loans are free (you pay postage both ways) but you must become a
| member. Subscriptions (1999) are �12/year. For details including the
| full stock list, see http://forth.org.uk.

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Subject: [11] Indexes

 Currently there is no single on-line index to books or published
 papers about Forth.

 FIG supplies a printed index of FORML and euroForml papers.

 http://www.amazon.com and http://www.bookshop.co.uk/SEARCH.HTM find
 45 books but omit some important ones like Scientific Forth.

 Peter Knaggs maintains a growing on-line database (nearly 600 references)
 to papers from euroFORML, euroForth and Rochester conferences, also
 books and standards.  Use http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/search.html
 to search the database (also available as a BibTeX bibliographic file from
   http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/bib/forth.bib.gz  Gnu Zip (167K)
   http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/bib/forth.zip      PK Zip (169K))

  Miller Microcomputer Services maintains an on-line bibliography at
  http://MMS.TheMillers.com/mmsforth.html#BOOKS

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