[HN Gopher] Byte Magazine: The FORTH programming language ___________________________________________________________________ Byte Magazine: The FORTH programming language Author : PaulHoule Score : 25 points Date : 2022-07-16 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (archive.org) (TXT) w3m dump (archive.org) | 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: | | http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm | | And then there's CollapseOS: | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-16 23:00 UTC)