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Re:Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth by alexisread on Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:56AM (#39573812)
Agreed, the implementation is the fun part!

Obviously instructions can be chosen for efficiency, else we'd all be using the 7 instructions of sectorforth. In fact freeforth has additional instructions for register renaming (to avoid SWAP instructions).

So what's a good set? Most seem to have 25-30 (Mako, Retro, Jones, Stoneknife)

Re:Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth by uticus on Saturday March 02, 2024 @02:08PM (#39574980)
> Most seem to have 25-30 (Mako, Retro, Jones, Stoneknife)

Know of any good sources that catalogue these? If it's all in your noggin I respect that, but had to ask.

Re:Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth by Karrot_Kream on Saturday March 02, 2024 @06:30PM (#39576812)
I think of Retro to be the "gold standard" for various reasons so I'd lean to the 25-30 mark.
Re:Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth by airbreather on Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:24AM (#39627682)
I believe can be as few as three

https://pygmy.utoh.org/3ins4th.html

Re:Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth by crc_ on Thursday March 07, 2024 @11:26AM (#39630953)
I'm not sure I'd quite count this as Forth; it's more of a very simple monitor for loading and running code. It's not a bad approach for use with a host Forth though.