September 2015 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others


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Videos: morning1 (37:55) - morning2 (37:11)afternoon (3:08:34)

10:00

Coffee and a Chat

10:18

An Event-Driven Daemon with a Command Line Interface - Bob Smith *
"This talk will describe an empty event-driven daemon. It is empty in the sense that the daemon itself only provides a command line interface, leaving the real functionality of the daemon to a set of loadable shared object libraries or plug-ins. The "Empty Event-Driven Daemon" has several features that you might find useful for your next project."

* This is not the Bob Smith, PhD who has been involved with FORML, Forth floating point, and Win32-Forth

11:30

Lunch
We ate at The Treehouse.

13:00

Introductions, Rumors, and Gossip

13:20

Haiku Monthly - Brad Nelson
"Join our monthly voyage into the kaleidoscopic world of Forth Haiku."

13:55

Haiku Stars - CH Ting
Ting presented a method of using the exact and complete mathematic specifications of stars to allow them to be described in a Forth Haiku, enabling many more national flags to be created.

14:40

Break

15:00

BSPL: A Machine Forth for RISC Processors - Samuel A. Falvo II
"I wanted to write software to search the dictionary in my ROM-resident Forth. What I wrote was a systems programming language. In this talk, I introduce BSPL, a Machine Forth-inspired programming language for the Kestrel-3."

Kestral Computer Project
BSPL

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn

 

Ad Hoc - Engineering Videos, SVFIG Meeting Reruns

Suggested items included:
 

Coming in October

Using Mecrisp Forth - Glen Worstell
"Mecrisp is an excellent Forth implementation that runs out-of-the-box on many low-cost development boards. I will show how to get it going and demonstrate some of its best features. A 'Getting Started' document is coming soon!"


Other items:

Forth
subForth - Sam Falvo
Forths written in C by Todd Thomas
Forth for MSP430
Forth Tutorials
Forth CPUs
ForthForge - Building a Forth Microcomputer in a Xilinx FPGA
Anding / N.I.G.E. - Machine
Forth Articles and Blogs
Forth Coloring scheme for the CodeMirror editor - Aliaksei Chapyzhenka
Forth Programming Books
Forth Books collected by Juergen Pintaske
Forth Kindle eBooks on Amazon
Programming a problem-oriented Language
Forth Early Years
Forth LITE Tutorial
Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
Other Jobs
Green Arrays
Forth People
Misc Forth Stuff
Canon Cat
Wikipedia entry
Old Computers entry
Canon Cat Google Group
Forth source code for the Canon Cat
Computers
Chips
StrangeCPU #1. A new CPU
Components
Software Applications
Joyce Word Processor for Amstrad PCW8256
Wang Word Processors
Space Applications
Programming Languages other than Forth
NARS2000 - An Experimental APL Interpreter - by Bob Smith
Operating Systems
Utilities
Hardware
Invizbox Go aims to make mobile privacy painless over any Wi-Fi
A Raspberry Pi-based Tor WiFi Access Point for Easy Anonymous Internet
CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit with WiFi for $70
A Dev Board For The ESP Lua Interpreter
NodeMcu Lua ESP-12E WIFI Development Board - $7
Other Books
Manuals & Documentation
Articles
Our Right to Moronic Design
Places to Telnet
Awesome Astronomy Apps
Low-cost embedded development kits accelerate design cycles
Applications
Stores
Robots
Games
Companies
Lectures
People
W. Richard Stevens - Home Page - Biography
Surplus Houses
Meetings
Videos
Courses
Trade Shows
Podcasts
Personal Computer History
Tutorials
Blogs
"Made by Monkeys" blog
Other
Spectrum Allocation poster


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