Re: LZ: ColecoVision >> ZShell Update

Re: LZ: ColecoVision >> ZShell Update

• Subject: Re: LZ: ColecoVision >> ZShell Update
• From: barrym <barrym@neosoft.com>
• Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 08:16:01 -0500 (CDT)
• In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.960727003600.22538A-100000@bingsun2>

On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Jingyang Xu wrote:


> On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Matt Hayden wrote:
> 
> > Add to that:
> > 
> > The ColecoVision was also Assembly-based... Thats a DEFINITE PLUS...
> > 
> 
> Hmm, show me a processor that's NOT Assembly-based ...
 
Actually there was one that I know of.  I can't remember it's
name but it was developed by Charles Moore, the developer of
the Forth language.  It was designed so that it's opcodes were
Forth primitives.


I've never seen any details about this so I don't know what I'm
talking about really, but I do know that it was made and used in
some situations.  In fact I think several generations of them
were made and I wouldn't be surprised if they're still being
made.  You can find out more about this on comp.lang.forth.


Of course you could say that it's assembly language looked like
Forth but that would take all the fun out of it.


Barry

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