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RE: Java 2 pbFORTH console, version 0.2 source release
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Date: 
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:42:23 GMT
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This is not for the faint of heart. I wrote a Java 2-based
pbFORTH console that strips out repeated characters when
talking with the RCX (most of the time). It still chokes
when the IR tower awakens, but you can get some pretty
clean-looking exchanges.

Wow! I haven't looked at this, and probably won't until I get
more Java experience, but thanks for the effort.

Just to keep everyone up to date on pbFORTH, I have (as usual)
got too much other stuff on my plate right now. I am going
to have some knee surgery in the next week, so I might have
some time to update the docs and put up the new release.

Biggest features are:

1. Cooperative realtime kernel!!!
2. FORTH words closely mimic RCX ROM calls
3. MARKER word to allow erasing trial definitions
4. RCX variables in low RAM for continuous address space

I will work on a Tcl/Tk interface/database/compressor
soon to allow libraries to be sent up to the RCX in a compact
execuable form.

Maybe Kekoa's floating point library can be linked in too...

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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Hello, This is not for the faint of heart. I wrote a Java 2-based pbFORTH console that strips out repeated characters when talking with the RCX (most of the time). It still chokes when the IR tower awakens, but you can get some pretty clean-looking (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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