Benjamin Tober <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Yes, in fact, Forth is a nice compact language and lends itself
> easily to microcontroller applications.  The larger PIC devices
> (17C4x) probably have large enough register files to support a
> decent stack in the register file, the smaller ones do not.

In fact, there already IS a Forth implementation for the 17C4x; it's
available from the Microchip BBS.

-Andy

Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com
Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California
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