FORTHs was Re: [Color Computer] [Coco] Re: CoCo USB

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 02:17 -0600, Willard Goosey wrote:

> There's three in ftp://os9archive.rtsi.com/RSDOS/LANGUAGE
> 
> DACFORTH is buried in the old Princeton archive on maltedmedia in
> ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/princeton_coco_files/
> 
> forth09 for OS9 is in
> ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/princeton_os9_files/
> 
> Frank Hogg had a FORTH system... I know he dumped all his old FLEX
> stuff into the PD, what about his coco stuff?
> 

I'd guess these are all Fig Forths or Forth-79, at best Forth-83. The
current standard is ANS (94) Forth. But that probably doesn't matter too
much since very few Coco programmers know Forth.

It is probably important though that source be available. Do you know if
the source is available for any of these (the core, I mean... unless
these were target compiled the high level words will all be threaded
code and a high-level reverse compilation can be done even without the
source... but the core is usually written in each machine's native
assembly language)? 

-- John.