Hi!  I'm just starting to learn about Forth...  [RUN AWAY!]

So much of it seems tied to the concept of a user interface...
but I was thinking of using it for robotic control where there
just isn't any such interface.  I don't even want any run-time
interpretation, just compiled executable code.

I've heard that Forth is great for microcontrollers, but are
they expected to have an ASCII terminal attatched?  What gives?

I'd like to see a Forth compiler for PIC microcontrollers, but their
Harvard architecture would probably require some external serial RAM
for stack space.  I'm thinking that if I use multiple RAMs on separate
two-wire busses I could do stack operations (on different stacks) in
parallel, so I might be able to pipeline the words much like the way
that the PICs pipeline their instructions.

Any comments?

Rick Miller