[HN Gopher] Byte Magazine: The FORTH programming language
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       Byte Magazine: The FORTH programming language
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-07-16 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | iasay wrote:
       | Oh I love FORTH. Good set of articles here called Moving FORTH by
       | Brad Rodriguez discussing the implementation of FORTH on various
       | legacy ISAs. Worth a read to understand the internals and beauty
       | of the simplicity of it:
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       | http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm
       | 
       | And then there's CollapseOS:
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       | http://collapseos.org
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | I love Steve Ciarcia's "Build a Modem" project. Steve published
       | plans for a project every month: usually at time it was a demo
       | project for some new integrated circuit with a few 74xx or 54xx
       | glue chips to interface it to a computer... But it always was
       | reliable and really worked. A few years later he was using
       | various kinds of CPLD instead of the x4xx chips and had also
       | discovered microcontrollers so one month the project was a
       | microcontroller board and then in later months the project would
       | be something you did by the board.
       | 
       | By 1988 or so Byte was really struggling and sometimes he seemed
       | to be the only person keeping the lights on. He'd be answering
       | letters to the editor, bailing people out of their WordStar
       | problems, etc.
        
         | EarlKing wrote:
         | I'd say Byte was really falling apart around 1985 or so. Prior
         | to that it was by hobbyists, for hobbyists, and it showed.
         | After that it started to lurch towards being just another
         | magazine for consoomers, with Steve being really the only
         | vestige of the magazine's original purpose... until he jumped
         | ship to create Circuit Cellar INK.
        
           | ghaff wrote:
           | Byte was idiosyncratic compared to say PC Magazine (which
           | still had things like assembly language listings into the
           | 90s) but there was definitely a whole swizzling of hobbyist
           | vis a vis corporate PC users going on from the late 80s. At
           | some point Byte became just a hard to define muddle. Dr.
           | Dobbs had a similar problem in a more software-oriented role.
           | 
           | ADDED: A lot of computer events were going through a similar
           | problem. At some point you're about everything and nothing.
        
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