Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!utrcgw.utc.COM!RAYBRO%UTRC From: RAYBRO%UTRC@utrcgw.utc.COM ("William R Brohinsky", ay) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: RE: Re: Implementation dependence Message-ID: <8908181758.AA10304@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 12:41:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Forth Interest Group International ListOrganization: The Internet Lines: 14 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.