[Simh] Stand alone FORTH interpreters

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-22 03:30, Davis Johnson 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?

http://www.forth.org/fig-forth/contents.html

There you'll find, among others, also the PDP-11 version.

	Johnny

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