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Oric-1 Forth Programming Manual

FORTH was created by Mr. Charles H. Moore in 1969 at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. It was created out of dissatisfaction with available programming tools, especially for observatory automation. Mr. Moore and several associates formed FORTH Inc., in 1973 for the purpose of licensing and support of the FORTH operating system and Programming Language, and to supply application programming to meet customers requirements. This version of FORTH is that issued by the Forth Interest Group (FIG) which is centred in northern California. The group was formed in 1978 by FORTH programmers to encourage use of the language, and interchange of ideas through seminars and publications. FIG issue a language model, and code implementations for a number of processor types, the publications being in the public domain; however, each requires customisation to a particular target system. Customised installations are the property of the customiser, who then holds copyright for his/her particular version. This handbook does not set out to be an exhaustive text-book on the language, merely an introduction to its use, and a general description of the internal working

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