Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-30 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
"I’m not sure how that would work since .S has no idea what you think should be on the stack at any given time. It can only show you what is there now." It doesn't know, but it doesn't need to ... The stack has a fixed starting point. An underflowed stack's pointer has gone beyond that point, so

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-30 Thread Alex ...
ents there so if you > want to run another such test you would want to clear the stack first. > > > > Jeff Birt > > > > *From:* M100 *On Behalf Of *Alex ... > *Sent:* Monday, March 29, 2021 1:25 PM > *To:* m...@bitchin100.com > *Subject:* Re: [M100] Does anyone

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Birt
...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH? Cool, so newbie mistakes and ignorance. As long as my computer's working properly. :) What threw me off is in the book, (pg.25) it talks about returning usually 0 and printing STACK EMPTY, which is definitely not how

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Birt
of it was the stack contents would be after it was done. This was a great benefit to seeing what was happening. Jeff Birt From: M100 On Behalf Of John R. Hogerhuis Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 2:54 AM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-30 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:25 AM Alex ... wrote: > Cool, so newbie mistakes and ignorance. As long as my computer's working > properly. :) > > What threw me off is in the book, (pg.25) it talks about returning usually > 0 and printing STACK EMPTY, which is definitely not how the machine behaved

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-30 Thread jonathan.y...@telia.com
il.com >Datum : 2021-03-29 - 23:08 (CEST) >Till : m100@lists.bitchin100.com >Ämne : Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH? > >On 3/29/21 11:24 AM, Alex ... wrote: >> >> About the editor: I skipped over the whole chapter on the arcane line >> editor and page/block-ba

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-29 Thread John Gardner
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Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-29 Thread Doug Jackson
ew cheesy Forth videos at the >> time too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXIDqptXmiM (lots of links in >> the description). >> >> >> >> Jeff Birt >> >> >> >> *From:* M100 *On Behalf Of *Alex ... >> *Sent:* Sunday, March 28,

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-29 Thread Ken Pettit
On 3/29/21 11:24 AM, Alex ... wrote: About the editor: I skipped over the whole chapter on the arcane line editor and page/block-based disk storage since this machine has none of that. Using TEXT with .DO files works ok, as long as whatever I'm doing doesn't trample the files in RAM.

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-29 Thread Alex ...
x ... > *Sent:* Sunday, March 28, 2021 9:39 PM > *To:* Model 100 Discussion > *Subject:* [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH? > > > > Hello Tandy laptop nerds, > > So I've been reading Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth" and using my '102 as a > playground / labrat.

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-29 Thread Jeffrey Birt
=TXIDqptXmiM (lots of links in the description). Jeff Birt From: M100 On Behalf Of Alex ... Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2021 9:39 PM To: Model 100 Discussion Subject: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH? Hello Tandy laptop nerds, So I've been reading Leo Brodie's "Starting

Re: [M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-28 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 7:38 PM Alex ... wrote: > Hello Tandy laptop nerds, > > So I've been reading Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth" and using my '102 as a > playground / labrat. There's been a few inconsistencies I expected and can > live with/work around, but I've noticed what seems like really

[M100] Does anyone actually use MFORTH?

2021-03-28 Thread Alex ...
Hello Tandy laptop nerds, So I've been reading Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth" and using my '102 as a playground / labrat. There's been a few inconsistencies I expected and can live with/work around, but I've noticed what seems like really bad bugs. It seems trivially easy to underflow the stack