1985 Rochester Forth Conference
Forth Machines
The Rochester Forth Conference on Forth Machines was hosted by the Laboratory
for Laser Energetics of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University
of Rochester, the Institute for Applied Forth Research, Inc. and the IEEE Computer
Society, 1985.
The conference was orginised by the Institute for
Applied Forth Research, Inc., with sponsorship from:
Eastman Kodak Company
Dr. Alfred Hüthig Verlag GmbH
Novix
Princeton Applied Research Corporation
Videk
Presentations Include:
- Invited Papers:
- The MAGIC/L Programming Language, by Arnold Epstein and Claire H. Gilliatt
- Forth as the Basis for an Integrated Operations Environment for a Space Shuttle Scientific Experiment, by Henry M. Harris
- HFORTH: A High Level Business Language in Forth, by Pierre Moreton
- Fifteen Programmers, 400 Computers, 36,000 Sensors and FORTH, by Elizabeth D. Rather
- Presented Papers:
- Pragmatic VLSI Design Environment, by Thomas Almy
- Top-Down Design in Forth, by James Basile
- Forth Implementation in a High-Level Language, by James C. Bender
- Measurement of Interrupt Response Time of PDP-11/44 and PDP-11/23 Computers with a CAMAC Interface, by J. R. Birkelund, T. S. Lund and J. A. Abate
- An Implementation of MC68000 fig-Forth under Unix, by Peter R. Blake and Nick Solntseff
- Expanding the Forth dictionary beyond the 64K limit by using `Bodiless' Code, by Robert Boni
- Improving the Understandability of Forth Code, by John Bowling
- A Window System, by Mitch Bradley
- An Alternate Forth Dictionary Structure, by James C. Brakefield
- Conversion of a Token Threaded Language to an Addressed Threaded Language, by Bob Buege
- A Direct Threaded Code TTL Control Unit, by Jack Calderon
- A Forth-Based Object File Format and Relocating Loader used to Bootstrap Portable Standard Lisp, by Harold Carr and Robert R. Kessler
- A multiprocessing Computer System Composed of Loosely-coupled Forth Micro-chip Modules, by Gabriel Castelino and Richard Haskell
- A Microcoded Machine Simulator and Microcode Assembler in a Forth Environment, by Alan Cotterman, R. Grewe and Robert D. Dixon
- A Micro Based ASW Trainer in Forth, by Robert H. Davis
- A Machine to Implement a Generalized FORTH Environment, by Robert D. Dixon, R. Grewe, T. Rocheleau and Alan Cotterman
- A Forth Implementation of the Heap Data Structure, by William B. Dress
- Real-Time State Machine Implementation Programming Techniques, by Randy M. Dumse
- A Forth Based Iconic Interface, by Mohamed Erradi and Claude Frasson
- Interactive Videodisc Control and Computer-Based Training on the Apple Macintosh, by Nick Francesco
- The Design of a Low Cost CAD/CAM System, by D. French and B. Hughes
- Microcomputer Control of a Machine Tool, by D. French, R. Rier and B. Hughes
- DEBUGGER: The Design of a Test Aid to Support the Development of an Embedded Computer System, by Harvey Glass
- Exception Handling in Forth, by Clifton Guy and Terry Rayburn
- Local Variables, by John R. Hart and John Perona
- Forth Automates Intrinsic Viscosity Determinations, by David J. Hooley
- System Development via Prototyping in the Analytical Laboratory, by David J. Hooley
- What's Wrong with Forth?, by John S. James
- Meta-Compilation System, by Rieks Joosten
- Some Problems in Implementation of the Forth Stnadards, by Mahlon G. Kelly and Nicholas Spies
- A Tokenized Rule Processing System, by Steven M. Lewis and Mike Fisher
- Concrete Suggestions for a Forth Floating-Point Stnadard, by Ferren MacIntyre
- Plotter Drivers as an Exercise in Forth Wordset Design, by A. Richard Miller and Thomas B. Dowling
- Editors and Editing Technique: A Review of Fancy and Practical Features in the Evolution of the MMSFORTH Screen Editor, by Jill Miller and A. Richard Miller
- Forth in the Computer Numerical Control Environment, by John Mullen
- Under the Hood of a Superchip: The NOVIX FORTH Engine, by Charles H. Moore and Robert W. Murphy
- FORTH for a Multimicroprocessor Control System, by C.A. Myerholtz, A.J. Schubert, M.J. Kristo and C.G. Enke
- A Versatile Software Control System for a Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer, by C.A. Myerholtz, A.J. Schubert, M.J. Kristo and C.G. Enke
- Basic on Forth, by Hans Nieuwenhuyzen and Harm Bramms
- Implementing Forth for the Multics Operating System, by Michael A. Pandolf
- A Process Monitor, by Hemant S. Patel
- Object Oriented Extensions to Forth, by Richard Pountain
- State Sequence Handlers, by Edward B. Rawson
- From Bubble to Quick: A Forth Comparison of Sorting Algorithms, by John Rible
- Combining Forth and the Rest of the Computer World: Dynamic Loading of Subroutines Written in Other Languages and Their Use as Forth Words, by William L. Sebok
- The Need for a Standard Test-Suite, by Nicholas Spies and Mahlon G. Kelly
- Forth in a Muon Channel with CAMAC Control, by Robbie Spruit
- NAPLPS Decoding in Forth, by Billie Goldstein Stevens
- Controlling an Integrated Automatic Parameter Characterization System with Forth, by Jonathan Sun and Barry Mason
- REvised REcursive and? 'REPTIL :IS, by Israel Urieli
- Forth-79 Profiled, by Alan J. Winfiled, Ron Goodman and Richard Pountain
- Production Testing of Domestic Clothes Dryers Using LMS Forth, by J. Dermod Wood
- Working Group Reports:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Acquisitions and Real-Time Systems
- Forth Machines
- Forth and Unix
- Graphics
- Robotics
- Standardization
- State Machines
- Teleconferencing About Forth
- 8086 Limitations
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