November 2022
Forth
Day
Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:05 |
Welcome - Kevin Appert, Program Chairman and
Master of Ceremonies |
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09:10 |
Exploring Win32Forth with Gun and Camera- Bill
Ragsdale
Bill will discuss the features of Win32Forth (now 20 years
old!) and its integration into his
Win32Forth
User Guide.
- Video (21:02)
- Slides
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09:32 |
Fireside Chat uhdForth - Chuck Moore
A chat by
Chuck is a Forth Day tradition!
- Video (21:13)
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09:55 |
GreenArrays Update - Greg Bailey, GreenArrays,
Inc.
Greg will update the state of GreenArrays
- Video (28:45)
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10:32 |
Group Photo - All attending in person
A
traditional group photo will be taken of those attending Forth Day in person.
Screen shots of those connected by Zoom will also be captured. |
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10:44 |
uEforth Graphics and Sound on the Web - Brad
Nelson
Imagery and music come to uEforth on the Web! Learn how complex
interactive pictures can be built from a simple but powerful vocabulary.
- Video (32:26)
- Slides
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11:17 |
Expanded Matrices in Forth, with Format Schemas - Bill
Ragsdale
"I am planning to present the expansion of my matrix package
for mixed data by column using a matrix defining schema (data dictionary),
leading to math/access operators selected by their operand format and
overloaded operators."
- Video (13:43)
- Slides
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11:30 |
The Forth2020 Group - Peter Forth
"I will
explain the work the Facebook Forth2020
community is doing on different platforms and how its members help Forth
survive as a valid programming solution."
- Video (13:51)
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11:45 |
Lunch
During the one hour lunch break, the Zoom
session will remain open for socializing and discussion. |
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12:47 |
Less is Mo(o)re: Beyond Forth - Liang Ng and Demitri
Peynado
"Since its inception in 1968, Forth has been taken up by a great
variety of programmers and engineers, applied to projects from microprocessor
to mobile device applications. We believe Forth, if
simplified, has the potential to be as popular as Python,
Javascript, or similar programming languages, so we implemented a 'light'
variant of Forth, retaining its reverse polish notation syntax, stack and colon
definition, while leaving out the bulk of standard Forth vocabulary as optional
extensions. We call our implementation Phoscript, where 'phos' is 'light' in
Greek."
- Video (43:00)
- Slides
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13:32 |
The Latest from FORTH, Inc. - Leon Wagner
- SwiftForth x64 for Windows, Linux, and macOS - Leon will
discuss the organization and some of the porting issues he encountered. There
were some not so obvious lessons to be learned about portability.
- SwiftX for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core M0+
microcontroller.
- Video (23:32)
- SwiftForth-x64 Porting
slides
- RP2040 SwiftX slides
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13:56 |
Sphere 1 Microcomputer - John Rible
"A few
weeks before the VCF I got an email from Ben Zotto, who'd gotten interested in
the Sphere microcomputer - a 1975 M6800 desktop that is arguably the first of
its breed. It was my first machine, and I've been working to recreate my SLURP
(Structured Language Using Reverse Polish) using his web emulation. It was a
subroutine-threaded design - I was far away from FIG." John discussed his
experiences with the Sphere 1, SLURP, and virtual web emulator.
- Video (15:03)
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14:10 |
The CORE I Project - Don Golding and Demitri
Peynado
Demitri and Don will give an update to the CORE I project.
Demitri will speak about the most important aspect of CORE I: the code. Don
will follow up with the first CORE I development board that incorporates an
esp32 processor which can run Brad's Forth on as a co-processor with full
implementations of WiFi and Bluetooth.
- Video (54:07)
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15:09 |
4th CoSy Update - Bob Armstrong
CoSy is Bob's
APL / K-level computational daytimer / notekeeping environment. He will give a
quick update on CoSy's development progress.
- Video (32:08)
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15:36 |
Adjourn |
Other items:
- Forth
- 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
- Coin-Op
Forth - Brock A. Miller, David E. McIntyre, and Eugene A. Klotz (May 31,
1983)
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Meet
Ada Lovelace, The First Computer Programmer
- Fredrick
P. Brooks Jr. Obituary (Author of Mythical Man-Month)
- The
Secret History of Women in Coding
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Spec
Showdown: The Original IBM 5150 vs. Today's PCs
- The Original
IBM PC: Lessons Learned
- Retro Computing
- An
Altair Clone: Then and Now
- Build
a shelf-size vintage computer museum made of paper
- The
Birth of the Integrated Circuit
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
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