[9fans] GSOC proposal

[9fans] GSOC proposal

[Bruce Ellis]

Just a suggestion,

A good forth system using acme, probably based on fgb's 4th. The goal
is to conquer the Seaforth chip.

I know the dev kit is US$500 but their compiler and simulator, written
in forth, doesn't need hardware.

And at least two 9fans have a kit.

brucee

Re: [9fans] GSOC proposal

[yy]

2009/3/28 Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>:
> Just a suggestion,
>
> A good forth system using acme, probably based on fgb's 4th. The goal
> is to conquer the Seaforth chip.
>
> I know the dev kit is US$500 but their compiler and simulator, written
> in forth, doesn't need hardware.
>
> And at least two 9fans have a kit.
>
> brucee
>
>

Would such a project be interesting for this year gsoc? Is any mentor
interested in Forth?

I really think acme would make a great environment for Forth
development. I have not used 4th except to play a bit with it, but I
have spent the last months porting the Ngaro VM to Go [1], which is
used to run retroForth [2] images, and I think that could be a good
starting point too.

[1] http://hg.4l77.com/gonga/
[2] http://retroforth.org

PS: I'm CCing this to the GSoC list, but since the original message
appeared here I'm replying to 9fans too.

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Re: [9fans] GSOC proposal

[Jeff Sickel]

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This is really too late for the GSoC bits.  But possibly of interests for later developments...


On Mar 25, 2010, at 6:03 AM, yy wrote:
> 
> Would such a project be interesting for this year gsoc? Is any mentor
> interested in Forth?
> 
> I really think acme would make a great environment for Forth
> development. I have not used 4th except to play a bit with it, but I
> have spent the last months porting the Ngaro VM to Go [1], which is
> used to run retroForth [2] images, and I think that could be a good
> starting point too.
> 
> [1] http://hg.4l77.com/gonga/
> [2] http://retroforth.org
> 
> PS: I'm CCing this to the GSoC list, but since the original message
> appeared here I'm replying to 9fans too.

A viable environment using in Plan 9 or Inferno to develop code for arrayForth and the GA line of chips that use it would be nice.  Well, nice for a few of us who may have future board designs using those chips.

Getting some Forth-SIM environment for any Plan 9 $objtype would help from having to run Windows IDEs on native x86 hardware or in VMs.  Additionally, flashing the GA chips from Plan 9 sure would make development decisions easier.

-jas


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