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  • 6FORTH

    From Jeffrey H. Johnson@johnsonjh.dev@gmail.com to comp.lang.forth on Thu May 7 01:36:21 2026
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    6FORTH is a floating point FORTH language interpreter.

    6FORTH supports a small subset of the standard FORTH vocabulary.

    This program is a revision of 'TINY.FORTH' written by David Malmberg, originally published in "Commodore Power/Play", Volume 4, Number 1,
    Pg. 104-111, February/March 1985, written in LOGO, translated to C
    by Kathy Larkin for Honeywell/Bull CP-6 and GCOS-8.

    https://github.com/johnsonjh/6FORTH

    The original Commodore LOGO version is also archived:

    https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/commodore-power-play-13/Commodore_Power-Play_1985_Issue_13_V4_N01.Feb_Mar.pdf

    A little toy, but perhaps a fun one.
    --
    Jeffrey H. Johnson
    johnsonjh.dev@gmail.com
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  • From Buzz McCool@buzz_mccool@yahoo.com to comp.lang.forth on Tue May 12 08:29:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.forth

    On 5/6/2026 6:36 PM, Jeffrey H. Johnson wrote:
    6FORTH is a floating point FORTH language interpreter.

    6FORTH supports a small subset of the standard FORTH vocabulary.

    This program is a revision of 'TINY.FORTH' written by David Malmberg, originally published in "Commodore Power/Play", Volume 4, Number 1,
    Pg. 104-111, February/March 1985, written in LOGO, translated to C
    by Kathy Larkin for Honeywell/Bull CP-6 and GCOS-8.

    https://github.com/johnsonjh/6FORTH

    The original Commodore LOGO version is also archived:

    https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/commodore-power-play-13/Commodore_Power-Play_1985_Issue_13_V4_N01.Feb_Mar.pdf

    A little toy, but perhaps a fun one.


    Commodore Power Play magazine! A real blast from the past. Thanks for sharing.

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