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- From: jdv@forth.org (J. D. Verne)
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- Subject: comp.lang.forth FAQ: Online Resources (2 of 7)
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- comp.lang.forth Frequently-Asked Questions, part 2 of 7
- Online Resources: Web, FTP and Email
- John D. Verne <jdv@forth.org>
- Last modified: $Date: 1999/07/23 02:27:09 $
-
- A concise guide to Forth related online resources. Send additions,
- deletions or changes to John D. Verne <mailto:jverne@mks.com>. Please
- see the Forth Online Resources Quick-Reference Card <http://www.com-
- plang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/forl.html>. A detailed hardcopy version with
- additional data is available in Forth Dimensions
- <http://www.forth.org/> magazine.
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- Table of Contents
-
-
- 1. Introduction
-
- 2. Personal and Commercial WWW Servers
-
- 3. Public File Repositories
-
- 4. News and Email Resources
-
- 4.1 Internet Mailing Lists
- 4.2 Commonly Requested Email Addresses
- 4.3 Newsgroups and Conferences
-
- 5. Bulletin-Board Systems (BBS)
-
-
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- 1. Introduction
-
-
- This is part two of a seven part document covering many aspects of the
- Forth programming language. All seven parts are posted monthly to the
- USENET newsgroups comp.lang.forth, comp.answers, and news.answers.
- They are updated regularly.
-
- This part is primarily concerned with being a concise quick-reference
- guide to the many online Forth resources available. Specifically, it
- attempts to answer the questions, "Where can I find the Forth
- resource...?".
-
- For more information on Forth or other Forth resources, please consult
- the other parts of this FAQ. They can be found at:
-
-
- o <http://www.forth.org/fig.html>
-
- o <ftp://ftp.forth.org/pub/Forth/FAQ/>
-
-
- This document was adopted in it's entirety from the "online" FAQ
- created by Kenneth O'Heskin.
-
- To request a change or report an error, please contact the author
- <mailto:jdv@forth.org>.
-
- This document is placed entirely in the public domain. You may quote
- freely from it, as long as you play nice and give us some credit.
- This document comes with no guarantees and is provided for your
- information only. Trademarks are the property of their respective
- owners. Your mileage may vary etc., etc., etc.
-
-
-
- 2. Personal and Commercial WWW Servers
-
- These sites are primarily Forth-oriented. Some are very product
- specific, while others are more for general programming interest. If
- you find any broken links or know of any pages that need to be
- included here, please let me know <mailto:jdv@forth.org>.
-
-
- o The ATLAST <http://www.fourmilab.ch> (Autodesk Threaded Language
- application System Toolkit) embedded system pages. You can
- download ATLAST from here, as well.
-
- o The Bournemouth Forth Redearch Page
- <http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/index.html>. Links to the
- Journal of Applied Forth and Research (JFAR), FAQs, Rochester Forth
- Conference and more. Very complete Forth bibliography.
-
- o euroFORTH <http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/euro/index.html>, The
- European Forth Conference home page. Access to the latest news on
- the conference, as well as links to the euroFORTH mail list
- archives.
-
- o Forth Interest Group <http://www.forth.org/fig.html> (FIG) home
- page. FIG membership information, FAQs, bibliographies, downloads
- and more. Information on local chapters and a members-only
- section. Home of "Forth Dimensions" magazine.
-
- o The FORTH, Inc. <http://www.forth.com> Home Page is a commercial
- site dedicated to FORTH, Inc.'s very complete product line.
- Ordering and training information available online.
-
- o Frank Sergeant's <http://www.eskimo.com/~pygmy/forth.html> home
- page. The author of Pygmy Forth has many articles and links
- available on his pages.
-
- o Immersive Systems, Inc. <http://www.immersive.com> have links and
- technical information about Meme, their Forth-powered extensible
- virtual reality product.
-
- o Forth Research at Institut fuer Computersprachen
- <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/projects/forth.html> has
- technical documents, Forth code and many Forth links. Some
- downloads available.
-
- o Jeff Fox's UltraTechnology <http://www.ultratechnology.com/> Home
- page. Home of Offete Enterprises, Inc. and the source for
- information about the MuP21 Forth engine. Books, video tapes and a
- diverse range of software available.
-
- o The Journal of Forth Application and Research
- <http://www.jfar.org/index.html> and it's UK mirror
- <http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/jfar/index.html>, published by
- the Institute for Applied Research, Inc. Author's guides and
- ordering information available.
-
- o Laboratory Microsystems Inc. (LMI) <http://www.cerfnet.com/~lmi>
- have an online catalog and software updates for their wide range of
- Forth systems.
-
- o The Forth Source <http://www.theforthsource.com> is the home of
- Mountain View Press. Tutorials, educational software and guides.
- The Forth education source.
- o The Mops Page <http://www.netaxs.com/~jayfar/mops.html> is the
- place for FAQs and information on Mops Forth for the Mac. Plenty
- of documentation and code available.
-
- o New Micros Inc. (NMI) <http://www.newmicros.com/> publish
- information and an online catalog for their range of Forth-powered
- Single-Board Computers.
-
- o FirmWorks <http://www.firmworks.com> is the source for information
- on Open Firmware. Dedicated to the development of the IEEE 1275
- standard. If you need information on Open Firmware, start here.
-
- o Patriot Scientific Corporation <http://www.ptsc.com> publishes
- information on their PSC1000 (ShBoom) 32-bit RISC microprocessor
- family, as well as their many other products. Some Forth
- information links.
-
- o Phil Koopman's <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~koopman> Home Page has
- extensive links to Forth, stack computers and embedded systems.
- Several articles and technical papers are publicly available.
-
- o The Pocket Forth Page <http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/pocket.html>,
- home of Pocket Forth for the Mac. Tutorials, downloads and code
- examples abound.
-
- o The Rochester Forth Conference
- <http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/rfc/index.html>, organized by
- the Institute for Applied Forth Research (JFAR), Inc. This is the
- place for Conference proceedings.
-
- o The Rocky Coast Free Board <http://www.well.com/~jax/rcfb/> is the
- web incarnation of the RCFB dialup BBS. Lots of information on
- Forth, Java and programming.
-
- o The home of JForth <http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jforth/> for the
- Amiga has FAQs, news and downloads.
-
- o The Computer Journal <http://www.psyber.com/~tcj/> is a good place
- for legacy system information. Very Forth-friendly publication.
-
- o Tout sur le Forth <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mp7/> en France, the
- source for French-language Forth resources.
-
- o Visit Triangle Digital Services, Ltd.
- <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/triangle> for information
- on their Forth-powered Single-Board Computers. Very complete
- online catalog.
-
-
-
-
- 3. Public File Repositories
-
- These sites offer anonymous FTP access to Forth files and resources.
- URLs can change rapidly. Please let me know <mailto:jdv@forth.org> if
- you find broken links, or know of more Forth-oriented FTP sites.
-
-
- o Official ANS Forth x3j14 <ftp://ftp.uu.net/> Committee ftp site.
- This is where to get the (un)official ANS-Forth documents. [need
- to find exact link --jdv]
-
- o Cygnus Support FTP Service <ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/forth/> is a
- huge ftp site with many Forth systems available.
-
-
- o Brad Rodriguez' CamelForth can be downloaded from here
- <ftp://ftp.zetetics.com/camel/>. You may also want to visit the
- CamelForth web site <http://www.zetetics.com/camel/>.
-
- o The University of Michigan Department of Physics has a few Forth
- implementations available here
- <ftp://williams.physics.lsa.umich.edu/pub/forth>.
-
- o Dwight Elvey <ftp://ftp.hal.com/pub/elvey> has made a few Forth
- resources available.
-
- o Marcel Hendrix <ftp://iaehv.iaehv.nl/pub/users/mhx> has an
- extensive collection of Forth implementations available to the
- public.
-
- o Taygeta Scientific, Inc is the host of forth.org
- <ftp://ftp.forth.org/pub/Forth>. This is simply the most complete
- collection of Forth resources out there. [need Bremen mirror
- address --jdv]
-
- o This is the place for Yerk <ftp://astro.uchicago.edu/pub/MAC/Yerk>
- (Forth for the Mac) manuals, information and code.
-
-
-
- 4. News and Email Resources
-
-
- 4.1. Internet Mailing Lists
-
- [Anybody care to expand on this list? --jdv]
-
-
- o To subscribe to the MISC mailing list <mailto:misc-
- request@pisa.rockefeller.edu> send an email with "subscribe" in the
- text.
-
- o To subscribe to the Win32For mailing list <mailto:win32for-
- requests@edmail.spc.uchicago.edu>, send an email with "subscribe"
- as the only line in the body of the message.
-
- o To subscribe to the euroFORTH <mailto:euroforth-
- subscribe@egroups.com> mail list, just send an empty message.
-
- o To subscribe to any of the following Forth mailing lists, send an
- email <mailto:mdaemon@chaossolutions.com> with the appropriate
- subscribe line as the only text in the body:
-
-
- o subscribe BigForth (BigForth list)
-
- o subscribe GForth (GForth list)
-
- o subscribe Minos
-
- o subscribe JForth-List (Amiga JForth List)
-
- o subscribe 4th-List (Original 4th learning list)
-
-
-
- 4.2. Commonly Requested Email Addresses
-
- These are the most commonly requested email addresses on
- comp.lang.forth.
-
- o For information on the ANS Forth process, please contact the
- ANSForth Mail Group <mailto:ansforth-request@minerva>
-
- o To contact the Forth FAQ authors, or request a change the the FAQ,
- please email the Forth FAQ Maintainers <mailto:faq@forth.org>
-
- o The Forth Interest Group <http://www.forth.org/> (FIG):
-
- o FIG Board of Directors <mailto:board@forth.org> (everyone)
-
- o Forth Dimensions Editor <mailto:editor@forth.org> (Marlin
- Ouverson)
-
- o FIG business office <mailto:office@forth.org> (John Hall)
-
- o FIG President <mailto:pres@forth.org> (Skip Carter)
-
- o FIG Secretary <mailto:sec@forth.org> (Brad Rodriguez)
-
- o FIG Treasurer <mailto:treas@forth.org> (Andrew McKewan)
-
- o FIG Vice President <mailto:vp@forth.org> (Jeff Fox)
-
- o Secretary of the FORTH Gesellschaft <mailto:secretary@admin.forth-
- ev.de> (German Forth users' group)
-
- o Editor of the Journal of Forth Application and Research
- <mailto:editor@jfar.org>
-
-
- 4.3. Newsgroups and Conferences
-
- These are the primary Forth newsgroups and public conferences. Please
- let me know <mailto:jdv@forth.org> if you know of any others.
- Specifically, I know there are several non-English Forth newsgroups.
- Does anyone care to comment?
-
-
- o The unmoderated comp.lang.forth <news:comp.lang.forth> USENET
- newsgroup is carried on most newsfeeds. Archived messages
- <ftp://asterix.inescn.pt/pub/forth/news/> are available. [need to
- find good archive URL --jdv]
-
- o Macintosh specific Forth news is found on the unmoderated
- comp.lang.forth.mac <news:comp.lang.forth.mac> newsgroup.
-
-
-
- 5. Bulletin-Board Systems (BBS)
-
- These are the publicly available Forthish Bulletin-Board Systems that
- we still know about. This information is presented for legacy reasons
- only. The status of these numbers is unknown. I'm starting to feel
- all nostalgic about my first 300 baud modem...
-
-
- o Arcane Incantations, 617-899-6672
-
- o Art of Programming BBS, 604-826-9663
-
- o Bitter Butter Better BBS, 503-691-7938
-
- o Gold Country Forth BBS, 916-652-7117
-
- o Laboratory Microsystems, Inc (LMI), 310-306-3530
-
- o MindLink <telnet://mindlink.bc.ca>, 604-528-3500
-
- o The FROG Pond BBS, 716-461-1924
-
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