Chuck Guzis wrote: > That is a bit of a surprise--in my experience it takes very little > code to support Forth on any processor--that someone would build a > dedicated chip for it is unusual.
There are actually quite a few Forth processors. Charles Moore himself designed half a dozen or so. The RTX-2000 series is a descentant of his Novix chip. Check out GreenArrays for his latest work. There are also some FPGA designs out there. The J1 seems somewhat popular.