What we’re about
Discussing and learning about the Forth programming language through:
*Monthly meetings http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html
*Active website http://www.forth.org/svfig/
*Email discussion list
Upcoming events (1)
See all- April SVFIG ZOOM Meeting --- Fourth Saturday!Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
go to: forth.org/zoom
for the SVFIG Zoom Meeting
**The Zoom Room is open 24-7, stop by and give it a try!
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There will be NO IN-PERSON meeting at Stanford! Zoom only!
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*** PLEASE NOTE 09:30 AM (Pacific Daylight Time) (16:30 GMT) START TIME
***All durations and descriptions are approximate or perhaps entirely inconsistent with what will eventually transpire.
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# AGENDA
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Festive Starting of the Recorder
There will be a brief joyful interlude to mark the beginning of the monthly recording of the Zoom session. Recordings will be posted to the SVFIG YouTube channel!
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We'll take a moment to remember the late Vernor Vinge, Forth evangelist and teacher.
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The Hana 1 Soft Core Forth Processor --- Christopher Lozinski
The most famous soft core Forth processor is the J1. Mecrisp Ice gives it more instructions, a timer, data io, an interrupt and a large number of libraries, both in Forth and Verilog. The Hana 1 processor builds on Mecrisp Ice, makes it a lot smaller, and gives it more memory. This makes it possible to build a many-core Forth processor on an ICE40 FPGA. Risc-V haș not yet done that.
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Screen Shot!
We'll take a virtual group photo to post on our website with the meeting notes.
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Omni*Chat: Creating a FORTH Shell within Java based BitTorrent Client BiglyBT Decentralized Chat (BBDC) --- Liang Ng
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Programming A Game With Strategy --- Bill Ragsdale
This sounds like fun!
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Sunday Morning at the Electronics Flea Market --- Dave Jaffe
Dave will report on the activities and merchandise offered at the Electonics Flea Market held at West Valley College in Saratoga, CA.
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Fun with Forth Recognizers --- Brad Nelson
Belatedly inspired by Leon Wagner's Forth Day presentation on adding Forth Recognizers to SwiftForth, I finally got around to giving them a try.
While Forth is very good at allowing applications to refine nearly every aspect of the system, Forth Recognizers fill a glaring hole, allowing applications to define new types of literals.
I'll demo an implementation of Recognizers added to uEforth/Esp32Forth, discuss how they affect bootstrapping the system, and explore some applications.
https://www.forth.com/recognizers/
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Forth, the Critical Use Case for Space Systems -- Don Golding
Don will tell us why Forth is the only solution for space computers that are reprogrammable in orbit.
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ADJOURNMENT
The recording will be stopped without festivities. Good fellowship and conversation can continue in our tastefully furnished Zoom Room.
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Message Kevin Appert for more info! Send messages through Meetup-message, email, etc.
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Zoom meetings are recorded and presented on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SiliconValleyForthInterestGroup
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