1981 The Rochester Forth Standards Conference

The Rochester Forth Standards Conference was hosted by the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and the University Computing Center, University of Rochester, 12-15 May 1981.

The conference was orginised by the Institute for Applied Forth Research, Inc., with sponsorship from:

The Standard Oil Company (OHIO)
Friends Amis, Inc.
Forth Interest Group
Forth Standards Team
Miller Micro-Computer Services, Inc.
Software Ventures

Presentations include:

• Working Group Reports:
  • Charter and Meeting Site, by Donald R. Colburn
  • Clarification, by Ed Wischmeyer and Robert L. Smith
  • File Systems, by John Rible
  • Floating Point, by John Bumgarner
  • Multitasking, by James V. Harwood
  • Virtual Machine, by Thomas Rust
  • Techniques, by Daniel Buckler

• Papers and Posters:
  • What is Forth?, by Lawrence P. Forsley
  • Introducing "THERMAL" or Forth now needs THIRD!, by Alan Taylor
  • Forth and the nature of ideographic thought, by Glen Haydon

• Comments on the Forth-79 Standard:
  • Chairman's report of the Forth-79 Standards team, by William F. Ragsdale
  • The nature of the Forth Standard, by Hans Nieuwenhuijzen
  • The Prehistory of the Forth standard effort, by Hans Nieuwenhuijzen and Paul Bartholdi
  • Transportable Control Structures for Standard Forth systems, by Kim R. Harris
  • FORTH, Inc., and the '79 Standard, by Elizabeth D. Rather and Leo Brodie
  • Division, Relationals, and Loops, by Leo Brodie and Dean Sanderson
  • An implementer's Comments on Forth-79 Standard, by Robert L. Smith
  • Some thoughts on the Forth-79 Stnadard, by Rieks Joosten
  • A proposed arithmetic shift operator, by Donald R. Colburn
  • Definitions for Arithmetic Shift operators, by Donald R. Colburn
  • Comments on the Forth-79 Standard, by Joel Shprentz
  • Forth-79 Limitations on Code Threading Techniques, by Terry Holmes
  • Standardization of Word Sets and Their Implementation, by Robert Patten
  • NOT vs COMP, by Hans Nieuwenhuijzen
  • Forth-79 Standard and NIC-forth, by Joel V. Peterson and Michael Lennon
  • Important New Additions to the Standard, by Kim Harris

• Files Management:
  • Files: To take the rough edges off Forth, by Peter H Helmers
  • User block files in CFHT Forth, by William L. Cruise
  • Elements of a Forth data base design, by Glen Haydon
  • The CFA Forth file system, by Thomas P. Stephenson
  • A File management system, by Thomas Rust
  • A File System, by Elmer W. Fittery
  • Enlarging the Concept of a Forth File, by Hans Nieuwenhuijzen and Fred Harthoorn

• Floating Point:
  • Forth Floating Point, by James V. Harwood
  • Some thoughts towards a Forth floating point standard, by Peter H. Helmers
  • Floating Point arithmetic and vocabulary supporting and AM9511 arithmetic processing unit, by Peter H. Helmers
  • NIC-forth and floating point arithmetic, by Joel V. Peterson and Mike Lennon
  • Complex Analysis on a Microcomputer, by Alfred Clark, Jr.

• Vocabulary:
  • Implementation of a Four-way Hashed vocabulary structure for the Fig-Forth model, by Donald R. Colburn
  • Hash-Encoded Forth name fields, by Thomas Dowling
  • Vocabulary Structure and Stack, by George Shaw
  • Text input with inline strings: An alternative to the string stack, by George Shaw

• Multitasking and Data Acquisition:
  • Multitasking Forth at Mauna Kea observatory, by James V. Harwood
  • OMEGA Laser Alignment System: A Forth Multitasking Application, by Rosemary Leary and Donald P. McClimans
  • Interrupt Driver for Multi-Tasking Projects, by Gerry Pocock
  • Image Analysis (Programming Considerations), by Ben Weslowski

• Data Structures:
  • Vectored Character I/O, by Joel Shprentz
  • Alternative Parameter Stacks, by Peter Helmers
  • A Forth-based Relational Data Language, by Lawrence P. Forsley and Greg Choimondeley
  • Linked List of Structured Objects, by Klaus Schleisiek

• The Future of Forth:
  • ACTION processor FORTHRIGHT, by Thomas Rust
  • Interfacing Forth and RSTS, by Jerome LeVan
  • Some Concepts in Forth, by Rieks Joosten
  • Moving Forth in the eighties: A portable data reduction system technical design study, by Doug Tody
  • Discussion for Future standards, by Jan Vermue
  • TERSE debugging package, by Thomas Rust

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