I am always impressed by people humble enough to own up to their own shortcomincs, and this article is one of the finest I have seen in that regard: “no, no, Forth is amazing, but my kung-fu is weak.”
Does anyone have a reference to the story where Chuck Moore patiently explains that sure, his Forth VLSI toolchain is simple but it’s enough to design a CPU to run Forth on … I read it years ago and don’t seem to be coming up with anything on Google …
Three things I found trying to find that reference are a description of how OKAD is built and a bunch of nice views it offers on hardware. Those are below. The views make me think of it as the Atari of CAD software. So retro-looking haha.
I am always impressed by people humble enough to own up to their own shortcomincs, and this article is one of the finest I have seen in that regard: “no, no, Forth is amazing, but my kung-fu is weak.”
Does anyone have a reference to the story where Chuck Moore patiently explains that sure, his Forth VLSI toolchain is simple but it’s enough to design a CPU to run Forth on … I read it years ago and don’t seem to be coming up with anything on Google …
What you’re looking for is probably somewhere on this site:
http://www.ultratechnology.com/
Three things I found trying to find that reference are a description of how OKAD is built and a bunch of nice views it offers on hardware. Those are below. The views make me think of it as the Atari of CAD software. So retro-looking haha.
http://www.ultratechnology.com/okad.htm
http://www.ultratechnology.com/cowboys.html
http://www.ultratechnology.com/tape1-2.htm