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RE: Is there a compatible h8 assembler for forth words?
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Date: 
Fri, 19 May 2000 21:21:08 GMT
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> Steve Morris wrote:
> > 
> > I asked this once before but in the middle
> > of an unrelated email so the question got lost.
> 
> I don't think this is clear. I ment an assembler written in pbforth that
> can create assembler defined words in the RCX

No there is not. That being said, it's pretty easy to write one...if you
have the time.

I fiddled around with it a bit and then gave up since the GNU tools
worked pretty quick. It was strictly a time/value exchange.

From bitter experience, writing assembler stuff in Forth is generally
not worth it. I use Plaugher's rule:

Make it work, then make it fast.



Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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(...) A good rule. I just know I'm going to need fast so I am planning ahead. Somehow I'm usually at the bleeding edge of trying to squeeze everything possible out of limited hardware. I originally learned my Forth on a 68000 (Mac Forth on the (...) (26 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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(...) I don't think this is clear. I ment an assembler written in pbforth that can create assembler defined words in the RCX (26 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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