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RSC FORTH v1.7

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 12:07 pm
by handyandy
I found this a while ago. It's an archive of source files for a Rockwell Forth chip that some may we familiar with. I will add other documentation as well here.

Cheers!
Andy

Re: RSC FORTH v1.7

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 12:09 pm
by handyandy
Here is the RSC Forth User Manual.

Re: RSC FORTH v1.7

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 12:19 pm
by handyandy
Here are some informational pdfs.

Cheers!

Re: RSC FORTH v1.7

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 12:08 am
by jds
Interesting to see the source code preserved. Rockwell went on to add extra hardware to their 6502 cores to support forth directly. This consisted of a 16-bit register called I, and 10 new instructions to support a direct threaded interpreter. It would be interesting to see the source code of the newer forth interpreter that took advantage of these instructions, although I'd think that the implementation would be quite simple as most of it is implemented in the new instructions. Pretty much all of the Rockwell and Conexant modems used these updates 6502 cores.

Re: RSC FORTH v1.7

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 2:36 am
by barrym95838
handyandy wrote:
Here is the RSC Forth User Manual.
Thank you for uploading that, Andy. The Forth tutorial is very well written.

Re: RSC FORTH v1.7

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:59 pm
by handyandy
Welcome, Mike.

I've found that whoever wrote Rockwell's documentation did an exceptional job IMO.

Re: RSC FORTH v1.7

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 1:04 pm
by MichaelM
To extend this thread a bit, the Rockwell R65C19 device incorporated several complex peripherals onto the chip, support threaded code, and support for digital signal processing. BigEd has a short review of the instruction set here.

Re: RSC FORTH v1.7

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 5:13 am
by yzoer
Wow! Thanks so much everyone!