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Man, the title plays it down a lot. I thought it was just an interpreter and nearly skipped over it instead of a Forth-machine OS, which is much neater.

Here the author. I loved working on this project, it was very satisfying building everything from scratch.<p>However, it would have been even better if somebody else would have joint.

I'm loving the recent rise of posts about FORTH. It's always been a pleasure to play with, right the way back from the 80s.

Like implementing a Lisp, every programmer who likes programming languages should implement at least a Forth. However, this goes a bit further and is lovely.

The enthusiasm with which this was written almost matches the enthusiasm the author had about the project.

Is anyone able to run this on Mac/Darwin? I think it might need gcc:<p><pre><code> $ cc -fstrength-reduce -nostdinc -m32 -nostdlib -fno-builtin \ -nostartfiles -nodefaultlibs -I. -ggdb -I. -c -o boot.o boot.S clang: warning: optimization flag '-fstrength-reduce' is not supported clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-nostartfiles' boot.S:21:23: error: unexpected token in '.section' directive</code></pre>

Man, the title plays it down a lot. I thought it was just an interpreter and nearly skipped over it instead of a Forth-machine OS, which is much neater.

Here the author. I loved working on this project, it was very satisfying building everything from scratch.<p>However, it would have been even better if somebody else would have joint.

I'm loving the recent rise of posts about FORTH. It's always been a pleasure to play with, right the way back from the 80s.

Like implementing a Lisp, every programmer who likes programming languages should implement at least a Forth. However, this goes a bit further and is lovely.

The enthusiasm with which this was written almost matches the enthusiasm the author had about the project.

I wrote a Forth implementation for x86 (2012)

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I wrote a Forth implementation for x86 (2012)

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