Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,de.comp.lang.forth,comp.sys.transputer From: Noel Henson Reply-To: noel@cowboyz.com Subject: Re: TILE forth for the inmos transputer t8 family Organization: Cowboyz.com, Inc. Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 17:43:46 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <354E60C2.9C77A408@cowboyz.com> Roberto, When I worked for Cogent Research I lead a team that created a desktop, moderately parallel, computer using 32 T414 and T800 processors. The only quick way to debug the hardware was to use Forth. To this end we wrote a specific Forth-79 kernel. It ran very fast and could replicate itself to other processors. I might be able to come up with some source code, if you're interested. Noel Henson Roberto Waltman wrote: > > wrote: > >I am thinking of a TILE-FORTH port to the inmos t8 family of > >transputers. <...snip...> > >I also was told that GFORTH is not very FORTHish. > >Does anyone have any useful comments on it? > > I did port TILE-FORTH to VAX/VMS without any problems. > (I had to made a few minor code changes though) It is (well) > written in plain old K&R C, so compilation is not a problem, > but it expects standard UNIX i/o facilities, signals, etc. > > >How urgent will be the need for an Inmos t8 based FORTH? > > This was posted a short time ago in comp.sys.transputers: > > > Just a note to all that may have missed the March 31, 1998 > > official notice by SGS Thompson ALL transputer products, > > including the newer ST20450, and support products (C011, > > Compilers, eval boards, etc) are being discontinued. > > <...snip...> > >This brings the Transputer era to a close, but it spawned many > > inovative ideas in parallel processing. > > I don't think there will be any "urgent" need for a T8 FORTH. > > RW. > > PS: I used that FORTH interpreter for quick GUI prototyping, > after extending it with words giving access to all Motif > functions and constants, plus a minimun set of X and Xt > functions. I'm planning to do it again under FreeBSD, > if somebody is interested please email me. -- Noel Henson noel@cowboyz.com www.cowboyz.com