go to: forth.org/zoom
for the SVFIG Zoom Meeting
**The Zoom Room is open 24-7, stop by and give it a try!
**If Forth.org is down, you can go to the Zoom room via the direct link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89716879946?pwd=Umx2WlNqU0pjbFplb3M1YS81WUU4dz09
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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
***Brits beware --- British Summer Time is an hour off from GMT!
***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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Announcements
Forth Day is coming! Coffee cups, t-shirts, storage rent, meetup charges, old computers, book stuffer, Juergen Pintaske books.
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Building A Finite State Machine With Forth’s GOTO Command --- Bill Ragsdale
You say there is no GOTO in Forth? There is now.
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Screen Shot --- Everyone
We'll pause to record the roster for posterity. If you're on the lam, turn off your camera or log out for two minutes.
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Cforth for RP2350 Raspberry Pi --- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
The Raspberry Pi folks announced their second generation microcontroller, the RP2350, on August 8. So I rushed out and pre-ordered a few miscellaneous boards, some of which are sold out now.

It turns out that Mitch Bradley's CForth has a build setup for PlatformIO. The PlatformIO support for the new RP2350 boards is still pre-release but I managed to get it working today on a SparkFun Pro Micro RP2350!

So I can distill all of this into a 20-minute slide show and demonstration. The code is all in a fork at the moment; once the upstream releases happen I'm planning to submit a pull request to Mitch.

https://github.com/AlgoCompSynth/cforth

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QUOTE and UNQUOTE --- Samuel Falvo II
A more generalized, and thus useful, replacement for AHEAD and THEN. Can be used to build S"-type strings, convenient code callbacks and/or closures, and other things which may involve "quotations" of various kinds.
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Forth 2.0 in Hardware --- Don Golding
“Time to make Forth THE Programming language for the 21st Century ...
Forth was designed to be small, fast and efficient. To run on small resource limited processors 60 years ago.
Today you can buy a 32 bit processor with memory for $1. Let's build on Forth to make it the most readable language today.”
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More CoSy --- Bob Armstrong
**"**I'd appreciate a few minutes to give an update on CoSy's progress ."
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Walk-ins Welcome --- We'll probably have some time this month.
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Round Table Discussion --- Everyone
Forth resources on the web.
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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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