January 2017 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout:
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url - tinyurl
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on Google+ - SVFIG on
YouTube - SVFIG on YouTube
Live
Videos:
morning (57:52) -
afternoon
(40:00) |
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10:30 |
Toward High IPC (Inter-process Communications) Stack
Processors - Matthias Schirm
"In this talk I will give a short
introduction to the evolution of Niagara from it beginning extending the
Retroforth VM (Virtual Machine), over a holistic VLIW (Very Long Instruction
Word) - to a dual stack, zero operand MISD (Multiple Instruction, Single Data)
ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) which allows the implementation of both
efficient software environments as well as high performance processor arrays
with low resource requirements. This includes a short outlook of the current
state of a future processor implementation whose most prominent feature will be
the combined execution of whole instruction sequences within a single clock
cycle." |
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11:30 |
Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at
The Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
IoT for Fun at Maker Faire - CH Ting
Ting has
applied for a booth at the upcoming Maker Faire with this description: "Silicon
Valley Forth Interest Group (SVFIG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to
promoting the Forth programming language since 1978. The recently available
low-cost WiFi-ready chip ESP8266 makes it possible for makers to build and
program their own IoT (Internet of Things) projects. We propose to run
tutorials and employ open experiment benches to teach makers how to build their
own IoT projects, and give them hands-on experience to program and test devices
that are remotely connected over the Internet."
- Slides - 853 Kb pdf file
- IoTforFun - (video
17:19)
Demonstration of a 5 device Local Area Network with 4 DSP8266 kits. A
PC serves as a UDP terminal sending Forth commands to DSP8266 kits through WiFi
connection.
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13:20 |
Forth Haiku - Brad Nelson
Brad will flip
through a few of the latest haiku. |
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13:45 |
CES 2017 Focus on Cars - Dennis A.
Ruffer
Dennis will tell us about the mostly-automotive-related sightings
and presentations that caught his attention at CES.
- slides
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14:10 |
Break |
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15:30 |
Particle Systems in Forth - Brad
Nelson
"Particle systems are a simple but powerful simulation approach,
a natural fit for Forth. We'll explore techniques for expressing them cleanly
in Forth, and apply them to simulate interesting dynamic behavior." |
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15:30 |
Selected Lessons Learned Building KCP53000 - Samuel A.
Falvo II
"While working on the Kestrel-3 and its CPU (KCP53000), I
encountered a number of problems, and there are problems that remain to this
day. These problems could have been avoided (or at least reduced in scope) with
some hindsight, and I would like to discuss a selection of them in this
talk."
- slides
- Kestrel-3
leans towards mainframes, I/O channels
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn
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Other items:
- Forth
- Atari Wiki -
Forth
- Introducing FIG-Forth on the
Atari 8-bit (video 14:16)
- Atari
FIG-Forth: About Screens (video 12:02)
- Mitch
Bradley cforth - ESP32
- C Forth based
firmware for ESP32 WiFi SOC
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- Forth Programming Books
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Games
written in Forth
- Computers
- Espressif
ESP32 Development Board - Developer Edition
- SparkFun
ESP32 Thing
- CHIP $9
Computer (video 18:27)
- Get CHIP
- Chips
- Components
- Software Applications
- Backup programs
- SyncBackPro
- FastGlacier
- Backblaze
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Learn
any of these 16 programming languages and you'll always have a job
- Kitten Programming
Language
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Maestro
USB Servo Controllers - Command Reference
- Other Books
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- Manifesto for Software
Craftmanship
- Manifesto for Agile
Software Development
- Systems
Past: The only 8 software innovations we actually use
- Discovering
Memory Address Windows without Device Trees
- Thinking
Like a Lisp Programmer by Keith Johnson (video 39:37)
- Forth
articles in Intelligent Machines Journal - 10/31/1979 - see page 4
- Programming with a
Differentiable Forth Interpreter
- The
Proceedings of the First Australian Forth Symposium - May 19 & 20,
1988
- Nuke
plants to rely on PDP-11 code UNTIL 2050!
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- Niklaus
Wirth on Teaching Computer Science (video 15:09)
- The Art
of Teaching Computer Science: Nichlaus Wirth
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- ANTIC
- Retrocompuring podcast about the Atari 8-bit line of personal
computers
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
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