> On Apr 10, 2017, at 11:18 PM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > 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.
Yes, I’m using the J1 in some my projects. I even wrote a J1 emulator (in Forth of course) but it has some limitations. I’m in the process of re-writing it in C so I can do some multi-threaded stuff and better simulate asynchronous I/O. TTFN - Guy