Category Archives: Forth

Stack Computers, Forth, RISC, CISC, etc.

March 1, 2008 – 9:00 pm

I finished reading Stack Computers. This class of processors is a bit different from the mainstream today — neither is it like the classic RISC load/store architectures (MIPS, SPARC, PPC, etc…), nor is it like the surviving (x86) or dead (VAX) CISC architectures. In a way, it’s slightly reminiscent of the high-level language [...]

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Furthering my Forth education

February 24, 2008 – 7:25 pm

Forth [wikipedia] is a programing language that at first seems like a fairly simple language, no more high-level than C, but then as you look at some of the abstractions that arise in code produced by experienced forth programmers, you realize that you’re going to have to expand your mental model of the language to [...]

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