[Simh] Stand alone FORTH interpreters

Davis Johnson davis at frizzen.com
Tue Apr 21 21:30:48 EDT 2015


Does anybody have a stand-alone FORTH interpreter laying around that 
might run on any of the SIMH emulators?

Mid to late 1980s the FORTH Interest Group's FORTH Implementation Team 
published a number of implementations that could typically be 
conditionally assembled to run either stand alone or under an OS.

I've got a handful of actual machines (PDP/11-05, Nova 1200, IMSAI 8080, 
Technico SS16, Interdata 6/16) that show signs of actually acting like 
computers. None of them are likely to ever have enough in the way of 
peripherals to run an OS in a meaningful way. Stand alone FORTH 
interpreters existed for most of them at one time, and might be 
reasonable to run on these striped-down relics.

Getting stand alone FORTH running on an emulator sounds like a good 
intermediate step.

Has anybody run FORTH on any flavor of SIMH?


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