July 2022
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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Zoom Chat

09:30

Start of Zoom Meeting - Kevin Appert

09:32

July Forth Programming Challenge - Bill Ragsdale
Develop an alphabetic grid such that when an unknown word is tested against a series of guesses, the grid notes the letters known by their location (Green) and the letters used but in an unknown location (Gold). The purpose is to sequentially improve the grid as a model of the unknown word. In Wordle you are allowed only six guesses.

Video (40:00)

Slides

Nerdle

10:06

Feedback for Klaus - Kevin Appert
We will suggest and discuss next steps for Klaus Schleisiek's microCore processor.

Video (15:40)

10:20

Can Forth Liberate Programming from the Von Neumann Style?- Demitri Peynado
“After reading the famous paper by John Backus, I wanted to test his ideas, but never found an interpreter that I liked. I will demonstrate how no interpreter but Forth was needed to explore the world of functional level programming.“

Video (35:42)

Slides

Source code

10:57

µEForth on the Web - Brad Nelson
“After a long delay, the same µEForth engine that powers ESP32forth now runs on a webpage! I'll describe how it works, how it is generated from the same Forth/C codebase, and what took so long.”

Video (35:45)

Slides

11:33

A Small Forth Profiler - Philip Zembrod
Philip discussed an Indirect Threaded Code profiler that he built.

Video (17:33)

Slides

11:50

The Latest from CoSy - Bob Armstrong

Video (10:04)

12:03

End of Zoom Meeting

Other items:

Forth

Public Domain Forths

SmithForth - A Forth for x86-64 personal computers

SmithForth Workings (video 32:54)

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

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

CH Ting's Scanned Documents

Offete Store

Forth for the Complete Idiot

The Birth of Random-Access Memory

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

SmithForth Workings (32:54)

IMSAI 8080 FORTH programming (15:40)

Software - past and future - Charles H. Moore (18:17)

Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power - Chuck Moore (2013) (40:12)

Forth2020: A Chat with Chuck Moore (2:32:48)

Watch William Shatner discuss the future of robotics in 1984 (19:10)

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Retro Computing

The Secret History of Women in Coding

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

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