Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels

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Publications by Bradford J. Rodriguez updated 25 Feb 2023 (added A Threaded Microprogram Machine) A selection of papers I have published, seminars I have presented, and computer programs I have written, that are available on this site. Please note that many of the papers include illustrations -- your browser should support GIF files. Detailed drawings are sometimes offered as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files. Moving Forth: a series on writing Forth kernels This series originally appeared in The Computer Journal. Accompanying source code can be found on the CamelForth page. Multiprocessing for the Impoverished: a multi-6809 system This series originally appeared in The Computer Journal. An Embedded Temporal Expert For Control of a Tandem Accelerator My 1997 Ph.D. dissertation at McMaster University. Summary articles. Full text of dissertation. These are all PDF files and require Adobe's Acrobat Reader. PatternForth: A Pattern-Matching Language for Real-Time Control My 1989 M.S. dissertation at Bradley University. Full text of dissertation. These are HTML files with GIF images. Miscellaneous Papers Forth Multitasking in a Nutshell [from The Computer Journal #58] (50K text) Asynchronous Serial I/O With The PSC1000 [1998 FORML conference] (29K text, 9K images), and program listing. The "Ztar" MIDI Controller [1998 FORML conference] (12K text, 101K image) Object Oriented Forth and Building Automation Control[1998 FORML conference] (24K text) A Survey of Object-Oriented Forths (with W.F.S. Poehlman) [from ACM SIGPLAN Notices 31:4] (17K text, 45K images) A Minimal TTL Processor for Architecture Exploration [1994 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing] (17K text, 22K images, 93K linked PDF file) A Threaded Microprogram Machine An earlier article about the PISC-1, with a more complete explanation of how it operates. (27K test file, best viewed in a monospace font) NEW The Echelon Lighting Control System [1992 Rochester Forth Conference] (27K text, 25K images) A BNF Parser in Forth [fro...