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Annotation of gforth/NEWS, revision 1.5

1.5     ! anton       1: User-visible changes between 0.2.1 and 0.3.0:
        !             2: 
        !             3: Stack overflow detection by memory protection on most systems
        !             4:        (allocation with mmap).
        !             5: gforth.fi is now fully relocatable.
        !             6: fully relocatable images are now easier to create.
        !             7: added primitives K and UNDER+.
        !             8: Win32 support.
        !             9: Improved support for embedded controllers and other deprived environments.
        !            10: some bug fixes.
        !            11: added concept index; other documentation improvements.
        !            12: 
        !            13: User-visible changes between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1:
1.4       anton      14: 
                     15: Bug fixes
                     16: 
1.5     ! anton      17: User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0:
1.1       anton      18: 
1.3       anton      19: Portability and Installation:
                     20: 
1.1       anton      21: Support architectures with buggy long longs (alpha-dec-osf).
1.3       anton      22: Better support for DOS and other non-Unix systems.
1.1       anton      23: Size changes through the command line are passed to the image (and
                     24: saved with savesystem); the preamble specifies an interpreter and is
                     25: propagated by save-system.
1.3       anton      26: 
                     27: Tools:
                     28: 
                     29: Improved etags support.
                     30: more.fs allows output paging.
                     31: Added compat/ directory containing ANS implementations of Gforth features.
                     32: Added tiny multitasker (tasker.fs).
                     33: Added two alternatives for object-oriented programming: oof.fs, objects.fs.
                     34: Added ans-report.fs (reports which words are used from which wordset).
                     35: 
                     36: New words:
                     37: 
                     38: Changed POPEN and PCLOSE to OPEN-PIPE and CLOSE-PIPE.
                     39: Added FORM, ROWS, and COLS.
                     40: added primitives EMIT-FILE, STDOUT, STDERR.
                     41: Added TABLEs (case-sensitive wordlists).
                     42: added POSTPONE,.
                     43: Added the ability to combine arbitrary interpretation and compilation
                     44: semantics (INTERPRET/COMPILE:); state-smart words were generally
                     45: rewritten to use that mechanism.
                     46: 
                     47: Changes to existing words:
                     48: 
                     49: EMIT and TYPE now work through file words (and are redirectable).
1.1       anton      50: HEADER now stores the compilation wordlist in the header and REVEAL
                     51: reveals into that wordlist.
1.3       anton      52: changed behaviour of SYSTEM (no longer returns wretval, but puts it in
                     53: $?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ).
1.1       anton      54: ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.
1.3       anton      55: