I was 'into forth' a good bit in the mid 80's, I worked together with a german programmer that really 'grokked' it (Lothar, his biggest dig at me was to call 'C' a 'great' language, by which he meant 'so verbose that it takes a lot of keystrokes to do simple stuff, to tease him I wrote a Forth in C ;) ), I was the newbie learning little by little.
We got some pretty hot forth hardware to play with (first chip of the 'Novix' line, pre-production) and we did neat stuff with it.
(until someone dropped a dime onto the experimental board when it was powered up that is, after that I had to pull some long nights coding a C replacement of our OCR code to save a demo... those were the days :) ).
Anyway, during the run up to this we got all kinds of good stuff on what was going on with the design of the chip, and my colleague Charly had some direct contact with Chuck, the stories about Okad come from him.
Charly was pretty good with the routing packages on our PDP-11 himself but he revered Chuck.
See my other post in this thread for some more details.
edit: iirc there was something about the Novix that was classified, I remember having to sign a bunch of documents about it being 'strategic'. I don't remember the details though.
We got some pretty hot forth hardware to play with (first chip of the 'Novix' line, pre-production) and we did neat stuff with it.
(until someone dropped a dime onto the experimental board when it was powered up that is, after that I had to pull some long nights coding a C replacement of our OCR code to save a demo... those were the days :) ).
Anyway, during the run up to this we got all kinds of good stuff on what was going on with the design of the chip, and my colleague Charly had some direct contact with Chuck, the stories about Okad come from him.
Charly was pretty good with the routing packages on our PDP-11 himself but he revered Chuck.
See my other post in this thread for some more details.
edit: iirc there was something about the Novix that was classified, I remember having to sign a bunch of documents about it being 'strategic'. I don't remember the details though.