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Subject: Forth FAQ: FAQ Overview. (l/m 07.Nov.93)
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Archive-name: ForthFaq/Overview
Last-modified: 07.Nov.93
Version: 1.9
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.
These messages are archived at the anonymous FTP site:
rtfm.mit.edu
in the directory:
/pub/usenet/comp.lang.forth
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
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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