SVFIG Meeting Agenda for Saturday, December 16, 2000 at Cogswell College 1175 Bordeaux Dr. Sunnyvale, CA |
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09:45 |
Coffee and Donuts |
10:00 |
Technical Session: QSP16 - Same Old One More Time - John Rible John tries a slightly different method of packing 3 5-bit op codes into a 16-bit word, implemented in a FPGA. |
12:00 |
Lunch Networking, demonstrations, and tutorials Sign up for tutorials by name and topic on the white board |
13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip |
13:30 |
Featured Talk: aha, ENTH, and Flux - Jeff Fox aha is a a new Forth environment for F21 that combines some of Chuck Moore's ideas in cmForth, OK, Machine Forth, and Color Forth with new ideas from Jeff Fox. Small and fast, aha uses Forth source compressed about five times and has amazing compile times. ENTH and Flux are stand alone floppy boot Forths for the Pentium from Sean Pringle. ENTH is a conventional mostly ANS Forth. Flux is a portable Color Forth that uses one aha technique to compress source and eliminate dictionary search at compile time. |
14:30 |
Break for afternoon tea Networking and demonstrations. |
15:00 |
Impromptu Talks Sign up for a time slot on the white board during the break. |
16:00 |
Adjourn |
Next Business Meeting: Monday, January 8th, 2001, 7pm Those with ideas for the next agenda and would like to get more involved in the general meeting process are invited to attend the Business Meeting at Jack's Pizza, 212 2nd Ave., 1/2 block west of "B" St. in San Mateo (650/343-9229). |
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