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- Subject: Forth FAQ: FAQ Overview. (l/m 07.Nov.93)
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- Date: 15 Dec 93 01:39:15 GMT
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- Archive-name: ForthFaq/Overview
- Last-modified: 07.Nov.93
- Version: 1.9
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- Hello!
-
-
- Welcome to the series of Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQ) Answers
- messages for comp.lang.forth. These messages are designed to
- provide the answers to commonly asked questions about Forth.
-
- This message is the general overview for the rest of the FAQ messages.
-
-
- Disclaimer(s):
- This organization of the FAQ messages is by no means final. If you
- have any additions, comments, complaints, corrections, suggestions,
- or ..., please send them to one of the addresses at the end of this
- message. These messages were created by editting the previous
- version of the FAQ messages, with additional material culled from
- the ForthNet. Please let me know if I have failed to attribute,
- or have incorrectly used or attributted, any material.
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- These messages are archived at the anonymous FTP site:
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- For answers to general questions about the Internet or Usenet,
- consult the messages that are periodicly posted to the newsgroups:
- news.announce.newusers
- news.newusers.questions
- news.announce.important
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- Below is a list of the currently posted messages, showing the
- subject line and questions list for each one. These messages,
- including this one, are posted regularly on or near the 7th and the
- 22nd of each month, to comp.lang.forth, comp.answers and news.answers.
-
-
- FAQ Message Subject Lines and Question Lists:
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-
- Forth FAQ: What is Forth?
- What is Forth?
-
- Forth FAQ: Organizations and Publications.
- What organizations are dedicated to Forth? (and how to contact them)
- What other publications carry information, etc. about Forth?
- What other Internet/UseNet Forth mailing lists are there?
-
- Forth FAQ: ANS Forth Standard Info.
- What is the status of ANS Forth?
-
- Forth FAQ: General Internet info.
- How can I find an anonymous FTP or email server that has "foo"? (Or, just
- Where can I find programs for Unix that can read .ARC, .ZOO and .ZIP files?
-
- Forth FAQ: ForthNet: What and how?
- What is ForthNet?
- What are the restrictions and guidelines for ForthNet messages?
- How do I send email to some one who has posted a message on ForthNet?
- How do I access ForthNet?
-
- Forth FAQ: Libraries: Where and how?
- What Forth libraries are available, and how can I access them?
- Getting Forth files directly from The Forth Interest Group:
- Getting Forth files via FTP:
- How do I use FTP?
- Getting Forth files via EMail:
- Getting Forth files via an EMail interface to FTP:
- Getting Forth files via EMail to FNEAS:
-
- Forth FAQ: Forth Implementations.
- [1] Forth for the 8051/8031
- [2] Forth for a PC
- [3] 32-bit protected-mode PC Forth
- [4] Forth for Windows (3.1/NT)
- [5] Forth for OS/2
- [6] Forth for the 68HC16
- [7] Forth written in C
- [8] Forth for UNIX
- [9] Forth for a Sun
- [10] Forth for a MAC
- [11] Forth for an Amiga
- [12] Forth for an Atari ST
- [13] Forth for a Transputer
- [14] Forth for a Tandy TRS-80
- [15] Forth for the Apple II
- [16] Forth for 68000 boards (including cross development from PCs)
- [17] Forth for (miscellaneous) DSP chips
- [18] Forth for VMS
- [19] Forth for playing with Music
- [20] PD/ShareWare Forth for the BrouHaHa-7245
- [21] Forth that isn't necessarily Forth
- [22] Forth Vendors/Authors
-
- Forth FAQ: Programmable BBS Information.
-
- Forth FAQ: CASE,OF,ENDOF,ENDCASE.
-
- Forth FAQ: Forth In Print.
- "Starting FORTH" - Leo Brodie
- "Thinking FORTH" - Leo Brodie
- "FORTH: A TEXT AND REFERENCE" - Mahlon G. Kelly and N. Spies
- "Stack Computers: The New Wave" - Phillip Koopman
- "Threaded Interpretive Languages" - R.G. Loeliger
- "Scientific FORTH: a modern language for scientific computing"
- - Julian V. Noble
- "Object-oriented Forth - Implementation of Data Structures"
- - Dick Pountain
- "Write Your Own Programming Language Using C++" - Norman Smith
- "The Complete Forth" - A. Winfield
- "Forth: The New Model - A Programmer's Handbook" - Jack Woehr
-
- Forth FAQ: Applications done with Forth.
- If Forth has been around for 20+ years, what has it been used for?
-
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