Forth, was Re: [HECnet] RSTS/E + DECNET 4.1

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

On Oct 31, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 10/31/2012 01:58 PM, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
FWIW, for those who like Forth, there's a Forth implementation
available as a run-time system on RSTS/E.   It's part of the
unsupported stuff on V10.1 (and possibly somewhat earlier, maybe as
early as V9.0, I forgot).   I did the port; I used it among other
things for implementing an interactive crash dump analyzer *very*
loosely modeled on VMS "SDA".

I spent some time with that RTS just a few days ago!   I didn't know
you did that port.   Very nice!   I just looked at the source, and there's
your name right at the top. :-)

I came to love Forth many years after I got out of RSTS/E.   Having
gotten back into it a couple of years ago, and finding a Forth system
for it, was a really cool feeling.   Life is good. :)

Is there a way to do FIP calls from that Forth implementation?

Definitely.   In the unsupported directory there should be odt.fth, which should show that.   There is also sda.fth, but that's a lot bigger and more complex, partly because it completely redefines the Forth guts to be 32-bit instead of 16-bit...

	paul