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SVFIG
Meeting Agenda for
Saturday, January 24,
2004
at
Cogswell
College
1175 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA |
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George Perry |
| 09:45 |
Starbucks Coffee, Tea, Bagels, and Pastries |
| 10:00 |
Getting Beyond the GUI: How the Mac Came To Be, Why it and
Windows are Fossils, and Getting to The Humane Environment's Future -
Jef Raskin
"Because it does not use the standard GUI conventions of
interaction (you can't create a better interface if it's the same
as what's being done), The Humane Environment (THE) is difficult to implement,
especially in a cross-platform manner. Our mono-platform version some years ago
was done in Forth with superb results. I will explain the advantages of THE,
demonstrate it running (in Python, sorry) and put out some easy challenges and
hard challenges to Forth programmers in the Q&A portion of the talk. I come
not only to teach and preach about interface design, but also to hear and learn
from the best Forth minds on implementing with Forth in the present
world." See
Meeting Notes for a related Wired News
article. |
| 12:00 |
Lunch - on your own: Togos or other local eateries
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| 13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip
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| 13:10 |
More on "Mippy" - Randy Thelen
Randy will
continue his discussion of Mippy, a TTL-based Forth
computer. He will focus on the instruction execution process from instruction
fetch, through decode, into execution, including a branch instruction.
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| 14:40 |
Short Break |
| 14:45 |
Three Ting Topics - CH Ting
Object Oriented Forth - What's inside of the FML
Browser
FML is a Forth-based browser that has implemented some Object
Oriented features. Ting will discuss the general structures in FML and how the
Forth interpreter is turned into a XML-like browser.
eP32 Microprocessor Book
Ting's new book on the eP32
microprocessor has been published in Taiwan by O'Reily. It is written in
Chinese, although all the code are in Forth, except the CPU design, which is in
VHDL. He will bring a copy to the meeting. |
| 16:00 |
Adjourn |
| After meeting |
Possible dinner at a location to be determined. |
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