February Zoom Meeting!

go to: forth.org/zoom
for the SVFIG Zoom Meeting
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Fourth Saturday of February, 2026.
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**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 this 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 Time) START TIME
***All duration 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
Ting's stuff, storage books, what to do with old computers?
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Unix Revisited --- Greg Bailey, GreenArrays, Inc.
Due to a scheduling error on the part of the Program Chairman, Greg had to leave before presenting last month. This month, he gets the first slot.
“IF I don't have to tend to something like a livestock urgency Saturday, I could share a little extemporaneous humor about revisiting unix/linux/whatever after 35 years away from that environment; I've been asked to put arrayForth-3 on that platform and am finding the process amusing.”
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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. Remember that the whole meeting is recorded for YouTube.
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> Beyond Bitcoin & FORTH BBF002: AGI Self Identity Using Hash of Public Key & Reselling AI Server Tokens --- Liang Ng
“We outline the theoretical principles and practical challenges in linking Artificial Intelligence server systems to web based application, in order to prompt AI agent to "know thyself", with self identity based on the hash of public key, and the prospective monetary value of Omnihash for enabling a decentralised market for sales of AI GPU tokens. “
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>The best FPGA for Forth Soft Cross --- Christopher Lozinski
“The $15 GateMate is a great FPGA for building Forth soft cores. It will happily run at 100Mhz or more. It has 64 x 1 K word long x 20 bit wide block RAMs (BRAMs). 20 bits wide is enough for most real time control applications. The memories can be joined with hard core connections, so a J1 can be a lot smaller and thus faster on this device than on the original ICE 40 devices. There are enough resources to build six J1s on a ring network with room to spare. If you build a J4 barrel processor, then you can have 24 soft cores. Or you can buy a single GateMate chip with 25 GateMate FPGA interconnected cores and have 600 Forth Soft cores on a single die. The Mecrisp Ice Forth interpreter requires about 5K of RAM, a customasm application requires less. If you replace Forth with customasm, then you could give a stack machine 1K words of memory and 1K words of program memory, which would give you 64 cores on a single GateMate, or 1600 soft core stack machines on the largest. GateMate chip. And you can connect them in whatever topology you want.
---All that we need is an application.---”
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> Stackless Forth — progress update, Details, Performance --- Nelo Mitranim
“- Breaking the mold: Forth is not about stacks.
- Register-based calls: how to keep register allocation simple.
- Exceptions the right way: ABI compatibility with C.
- Bi-directional C interop.
- Comparison with stack-based calls. “
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>TBD --- Bill Ragsdale (Tentative) CANCELLED
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Random Access, Round Table, Replays, Ad Hoc
Forth Day after-action review.
What was your first Forth? On what platform?
Trade shows, public outreach.
Elevator pitch for Forth / printing a bookmark list of resources?
Meeting locations from history, Chabot, ABI, Dyson Wedge, Cogswell, …? We need a list!
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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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Coming Next Month:
More goat rodeo.
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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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