Forth Books 12 -BRAD RODRIGUEZ-CAMELFORTH

Publications by Bradford J. Rodriguez : http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/

updated 18 Apr 2014 (added Forth Multitasking in a Nutshell) 

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. 

• Part 1: Design Decisions in the Forth Kernel (33K text, 21K images)

• Part 2: Benchmarks and Case Studies of Forth Kernels (31K text)

• Part 3: Demystifying DOES> (48K text, 45K images)

• Part 4: Assemble or Metacompile? (8K text)

• Part 5: The Z80 Primitives (9K text, 38K linked files)

• Part 6: The Z80 High-level Kernel (20K text, 36K linked files)

• Part 7: CamelForth for the 8051 (12K text, 5K images)

• Part 8: CamelForth for the 6809 (10K text, 33K linked files)

• Multitasking 8051 CamelForth (23K PDF file)

Multiprocessing for the Impoverished: a multi-6809 system

This series originally appeared in The Computer Journal. 

• Part 1: A 6809 Uniprocessor (28K text, 37K linked PDF files)

• Part 2: Sharing the Bus (18K text, 44K images)

• Part 3: Mid-Course Corrections (21K text, 156K linked PDF file)

• Part 4: The IBM PC Bus (21K text, 156K linked PDF file)

• Part 5: Serial I/O (34K text, 163K linked PDF files)

An Embedded Temporal Expert For Control of a Tandem Accelerator

My 1997 Ph.D. dissertation at McMaster University. 

Summary articles. 

• A System for Distributed Inferencing (with W.F.S. Poehlman) [1996 Rochester Forth Conference] (24K text, 77K linked files)

Full text of dissertation. These are all PDF files and require Adobe's Acrobat Reader. 

• Front matter (abstract, acknowledgments, table of contents, list of figures; 20K)

• Chapter 1: Introduction (17K)

• Chapter 2: Literature Review (40K)

• Chapter 3: An Embedded Temporal Expert System (43K)

• Chapter 4: Controlling the FN Accelerator (85K)

• Chapter 5: Expert System Performance (26K)

• Chapter 6: Accelerator Control Performance (259K)

• Chapter 7: Summary and Conclusions (9K)

• Bibliography (35K)

• Appendix A: Instrumenting the FN Accelerator (140K)

• Appendix B: Asynchronous Token Ring Communications (35K)

• Appendix C: Toward a Distributed, Object-Based Forth (29K)

• Appendix D: The Inferencing Token Language (9K)

• Appendix E: Accelerator Control Program (13K)

• Appendix F: Towers of Hanoi Benchmark (11K)

• Appendix G: Glossary of Abbreviations (4K)

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. 

• A. Introduction (7K)

• B. Project Scope (8K)

• C. Dynamic Memory Management (19K, 15K linked images)

• D. Associative String Access (39K, 26K linked images)

• E. Pattern Matching (44K, 64K linked images)

• F. Pattern and String Operations (14K)

• G. Conclusions (1K)

• H. References (6K)

• I. Figures (2K, 105K linked images)

• Appendix A. PatternForth Glossary (21K)

• Appendix B. The Program Listing (pending)

Miscellaneous Papers

• Forth Multitasking in a Nutshell [from The Computer Journal #58] (50K text) NEW

• 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)

• The Echelon Lighting Control System [1992 Rochester Forth Conference] (27K text, 25K images)

• A BNF Parser in Forth [from ACM SIGForth Newsletter 2:2] (27K text)

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• Build Your Own (Cross-) Assembler...in Forth[from The Computer Journal #52] (33K text) 

• Build Your Own Assembler, Part 2: a 6809 Forth Assembler[from The Computer Journal #54] (21K text)

• 6809 Forth Assembler Listing [from The Computer Journal #54] (11K text)

You can also see the master index of everything I have written, on or off the web. 

Computer Programs

• CamelForth for the 6809, with Chromium metacompiler

• CamelForth for the 8051, w/multitasker

• CamelForth for the Z80 under CP/M

• CamelForth for the 8086 under MS-DOS

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