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To: John Mansfield who wrote (897)	1/15/1998 1:47:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) of 9818

Everything you wanted to know about processors ...but were afraid to ask. This is a very nice document. Contains: - lots of background reading on processor families - architectures - history - Forth being a language well suited for embedded systems; I was not aware of this fact. Has it really been used a lot in embedded sw? etc John ----- infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu ----- Forth: Stack oriented period . Forth was developed over several years around 1970, by Charles Moore, for controlling telescopes (it was intended to be a fourth generation language, but one computer he used (the IBM 1130) only accepted five character identifiers, so it became "Forth"). It's a fast, small, and extensible language, which makes it good for embedded systems, and since forth code is interpreted by a virtual machine, it's also extremely portable.

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