May 2022
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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SVFIG YouTube Channel

Zoom Chat

09:32

Start of Zoom Session - Kevin Appert

• Possibility of future SVFIG meeting at Stanford
• Storage space rent solicitation

09:39

microCore's VHDL Code and Structure - Klaus Schleisiek
Klaus will continue with his exploration of his microCore processor.

Video (1:05:24)

Slides

microCore's VHDL Code and Structure - April 2022 video (55:00)

An Overview of microCore - March 2022 video (40:00)

microCore

microCore documentation

10:42

May Forth Programming Challenge - Letter Frequency - Bill Ragsdale

1. Develop a (large) list of five letter words (from 20 to thousands). [Wordle = 12,875 words]
2. Determine the letter frequency across all the words.
3. Compare your results with a published source. [Wikipedia: letter frequency]
4. Put your list in alphabetic order for extra credit.

Video (27:07)

Participants:

Brad Nelson - slides

Bill Ragsdale

11:05

Space Avionics - Don Golding
Don discussed opportunities for Forth and CORE I in space avionics.

Video (27:29)

Slides

11:33

How ForthBox USED to Handle Asynchronous I/O - Samuel A. Falvo II
"Since I plan to use the 9P protocol to communicate with peripheral attachments with the ForthBox, I desperately need a way to handle long-lasting, asynchronous I/O. Back in January, I finalized a design for this that I was happy with, largely inspired by how the Tripos operating system works. This talk aims to document this design in a presentation. If time permits, I'll also discuss what will be changing going forward."

Video (28:30)

Slides

TRIPOS Operating System

12:01

End of Zoom Meeting

Other items:

Forth

Jonesforth - A sometimes minimal Forth compiler and tutorial (2007)

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

Products in Forth

Misc Forth Stuff

Win32Forth Guide - draft

Computers

Chips

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

Hardware

Other Books and Magazines

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

History of Programming - Mark Rendle (video 1:05:25)

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Retro Computing

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

May the Forth

May the 4th Be With You: A Cultural History

Star Wars Day

'May the Forth be with you' T-shirt

May the forth be with You (Song)

May the forth be with you ... and your research (Networking event)