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Third, a small Forth compiler for 8086 DOS

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2013-11-17 · latest 2023-07-16

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  1. …for DOS as a teenager, culminating in a somewhat-polished ANS compatible one I called "Third": https://github.com/benhoyt/third -- it's kind of amazing being able to have a fully bootstrapped Forth compiler (including an assembler) in a…
  2. …tracking than code! [1] For example, "Third", a 16-bit self-hosting Forth compiler for DOS: https://github.com/benhoyt/third
  3. …x86 assembly were my first languages. I wrote a small self-hosting Forth compiler for 8086 DOS ( https://github.com/benhoyt/third ), a tiny 32-bit Forth operating system for the 386 (I guess you'd call it "bare metal" today). Incidentally,…
    comment by benhoyt · 2022-07-17 · in Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980)
  4. …ones for 8086 and 386. The 8086 source code is here (I didn't write the assembler myself): https://github.com/benhoyt/third (KERNEL.F has the assembler parts)
    comment by benhoyt · 2021-02-17 · in RetroForth 2021.1
  5. …way to start -- a Forth compiler/system is relatively simple to build yourself from the ground up. https://github.com/benhoyt/third
  6. I'm 2^5. My oldest code online is a Forth compiler I wrote when I was 2^4: https://github.com/benhoyt/third#readme