[Simh] Stand alone FORTH interpreters

[Zane Healy]

On Apr 21, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com> wrote:

> 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?

Have you looked at SOL-11?

I'm pretty sure I've booted it on SIMH, and I want to say I brought it up on one of my PDP-11's.

ftp://ftp.informatimago.com/pub/scheme-mirrors/www.t3x.org/attic/index.html

Zane