[TUHS] forth on early unix

[Larry McVoy via TUHS]

Bruce Karsh made me write a lot of forth on a Masscomp.  Messed with me,
he was good at that, I wrote more(1) in forth and he kept coming back with
"can it go backwords?"  "Can you search?" etc.  I made a pretty good more
clone in forth because of Bruce.  And if you don't know him, I was on a
zoom memorial for him and there were two Turing Award winners on that 
zoom.  Bruce was somebody.  I felt like I did not deserve to be there.

I'm still not a forth fan.  That said, the sun boot proms were in
forth and there was some pretty cool forth in there.  It knew the VM
structures, it knew sockets, it knew a lot.  I'm still not a forth fan
but it was useful.

On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 10:03:15PM -0500, Will Senn via TUHS wrote:
> I'm doing forth exploring and am curious if there were forthen (is that even
> a word?) on early versions of unix that folks remember using?
> 
> Will

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