[TUHS] forth on early unix

[Jeff Johnson via TUHS]

I also rescued and archived Roger Ivie’s THIRD, which is a portable (and non-standard) FORTH that works on various systems - it comes with pre-built PDP-8 and CP/M-80 binaries.

https://github.com/johnsonjh/third

It’s an odd yet clever implementation for small systems.

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Jeffrey H. Johnson
trnsz at pobox.com

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025, at 9:03 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS wrote:
> Johan Helsingius wrote:
>> I was trying to port forth to the PDP-10 and had to give up
>
> When was that?  And why did you give up?
>
> I wrote a Forth for the PDP-8; based on that I would say one for the
> PDP-10 wouldn't be overly difficult.
>
> There's a Forth for the PDP-10 written in Maclisp, but perhaps that's a
> bit of a cheat.
>
> [Veering wildly off TUHS, redirected to COFF]