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- Documentation for 4xFORTH
-
- Overview
- --------
- We strongly believe that documentation is NEVER good enough ...
- including our own. As a result, we have endeavored to provide
- excellent documentation, and to continue to improve it.
-
- The actual documentation for 4xFORTH is quite substantial. It
- is NOT aimed at the beginning FORTH programmer, but rather at
- the system user who will want to do "nifty" things. It is over
- 200 pages in length.
-
- (For a delightful introduction to FORTH as a language we can
- gladly recommend the Leo Brodie book "Starting FORTH" which
- is available from Prentice-Hall. For those seeking a thorough
- discussion of how to write new programs in FORTH, we suggest the
- Brodie book "Thinking FORTH" also available from Prentice-Hall.)
-
- Our documentation discusses the use of EVERY cell in the user
- table, in some systems you don't even know there is one, and
- contains a complete glossary. Examples are used in many places.
-
- If after using the 4xFORTH demo system, you still have doubts
- about 4xFORTH, we will provide the current 4xFORTH system
- documentation for a price of $35, $20 of which is deductable
- from the purchase price of a 4xFORTH system.
-
-
- Documentation for the DEMO system
- ---------------------------------
- It is not economically possible to deliver all of the standard
- documentation for 4xFORTH with the DEMO system. Therefore, we
- have provided the following files on this disk which, with a
- copy of the 83 Forth Standard or some FORTH experience, will give
- you enough information to get started:
-
- RUN.DOC How to start and exit the 4xFORTH
- demo system.
-
- STATUS.DOC How to get system status info from
- 4xFORTH.
-
- EDITOR.DOC How to use the 4xFORTH editor.
-
- GRAPHIC.DOC The available graphics facilities.
-
- WIDTHS.DOC Explains the widths of variables
- and operators.
-
- PRINT.DOC Explains basic printing routines
- and I/O redirection.
-
- PROTECT.DOC An explanation of our copy protection
- policy.
-
- COSTS.DOC What does 4xFORTH Cost?
-
- WHEN.DOC When will things be available?
-
-
- It is often difficult to use, or assess, a demonstration system
- of any kind. Even though it is impossible to see the full extent
- of 4xFORTH's capabilities with this demo system, we hope we have
- achieved a balance that will give you enough information to make
- some decision about 4xFORTH.
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