I had forgotten about this thread and my previous post on it. Since then, I've done a fair amount in forth -- read Staring Forth , read Thinking Forth , made a little computer that ran Forth, wrote a floating point word set for practice, etc. It has a truly amazing power to weight ratio -- you can ...

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The simplest (and likely insulting) answer is that it's a programing language and -- not surprisingly -- it's used to program computers. There are several people on these forums who are very knowledgeable about forth, and they can probably tell you a lot about it. I just started learning it so I'll ...

Thanks for the replies, it's given me some new ideas. I'll probably have more questions as I get further along.

I decided that it would be fun to make a 6502 based computer which runs Forth. I started learning about the 6502, and now I'm moving on to learning about Forth. At the moment, I'm reading through the 1981 edition of "Starting Forth" (I'm currently finished chapter 3). I just installed gForth and ...

Score. Thanks for the confirmation.

I was looking at WDC's W65c02 data sheet (http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/datasheets/w65c02s.pdf) and noticed that it listed Reset Memory Bit (RMB), Set Memory Bit (SMB), Branch on Bit Reset (BBR), and Branch on Bit Set (BBS) as instructions. However, appendix c of WDC's programming manual ...

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