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From: RAYBRO%UTRC@utrcgw.utc.COM ("William R Brohinsky", ay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: RE: Re: Implementation dependence
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Date: 17 Aug 89 12:41:00 GMT
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Peter-- are you implying that your putative cell-oriented machine would
have a 16-bit word, and yet still use byte addressing? I thought a cell-
oriented machine (with 16-bit 83-std cellsize) would have an address
space of 65536 addressable cells, i.e., 128Kbytes!
my question, on the same 0-65535 address range, is this:
is this range intended to be absolute (from absolute address $000000...)
or can it be relative (i.e., from some marker in address space for variable
addressing region start point.
I believe that I have some forths that do both (although I am trying to
expunge all from my organic memory other than the 3 I am forced to use on
a regular basis: Forth, Inc's ChipForth 68HC11; FPC on the pc; Jforth on the
Amiga (my personal machine and favorite by FAR!)
-raybro
It doesn't matter what I disclaim. Noone would believe me, anyway.