[H-GEN] eeprom tools

[Christopher Biggs]

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"Michael Anthon" <michael at anthon.net> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> [2] who the hell ever learned Forth anyway?  I tried once and couldn't get
> my head around it[....]

Forth rocks. 

Once you grok the mindset, it all makes sense, but bootstrapping your
understanding can be difficult.  

It's a great language for small systems, (it was originally invented
to run a telescope drive system) but in my opinion is not well suited
to large multiuser virtual memory systems.

Chuck Moore, Forth's inventor, is still working on stack-machine
languages, and he designs *seriously* high speed stack-machine CPUs
for video processing and VLSI CAD environments.  His approach is to
forgo general purpose designs, eschew backward compatability, and
generally stomp on the weird pedal.  He doesn't use a standard
keyboard, or even character-set.

More info:
     http://www.colorforth.com/
     http://www.ultratechnology.com/chips.htm

--cjb

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