RPL for the 6502 circa 1981

[Garth Wilson]

(12-17-2013 01:33 AM)Katie Wasserman Wrote:  I think that you need to consider "RPL" in context. That context being the available languages on the Commodore PET with 8K of RAM circa 1980 when RPL was created. [...] The comparison to Forth is somewhat hyperbolic and totally unnecessary as there were no versions of Forth available for an 8K Commodore PET back in 1980-81. Although you might have been able to squeeze in part of some 6502 version of Forth there would be little memory left for user programs.

I can accept that, as I'm thinking of the HP-41 Forth which used up nearly all the RAM and still it was a very poor, incomplete Forth.

One of the things in my long list of things to post on my website is my feature-rich 6502 Forth, and my 65816 Forth. Alas, it all takes so much time.