FORTH & HP: where to start?

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(05-17-2023 11:22 AM)ThomasF Wrote:  Don't have the module anymore, but it does also contain Forth.
I.e. you could either use the Forth/Assembler module or the Forth/Translator module for Forth programming.
AFAIK the two Forth implementations are basically identical apart from the assembler part in the first module and built-in words for RPN/HP41 in the other.

So my guess is that the reference indicates that you could use either of the modules to run the program.

EDIT: Sorry, but no, that was not fully correct. I noticed that the word "CLOCK" is used, and that is only available in the Translator module!
So the stopwatch functions must be rewritten if the Assembler module is used ...

Cheers,
Thomas

This highlighted section is not correct. Though outwardly quite similar, the internals of these two products are very different and most words are at different addresses, which is probably a big issue for a development tool.

Bill Wickes created the 41Trans product himself, derived from the earlier FORTH/Assm product after the dev group said it (making a 41 emulator from the F/A product) could not be done. The reasons so many things changed is exactly why they said it couldn't be done, but Bill just rolled-up his sleeves and reorganized most of the 'guts' to get it done, with the resulting side-effect that they are fairly different on the inside.

There are FAR more F/A modules out there than 41Trans, so I would suggest to target the F/A flavor and ignore supporting the 41Trans flavor.