Annotation of gforth/NEWS, revision 1.3

1.1       anton       1: User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0
                      2: 
1.3     ! anton       3: Portability and Installation:
        !             4: 
1.1       anton       5: Support architectures with buggy long longs (alpha-dec-osf).
1.3     ! anton       6: Better support for DOS and other non-Unix systems.
1.1       anton       7: Size changes through the command line are passed to the image (and
                      8: saved with savesystem); the preamble specifies an interpreter and is
                      9: propagated by save-system.
1.3     ! anton      10: 
        !            11: Tools:
        !            12: 
        !            13: Improved etags support.
        !            14: more.fs allows output paging.
        !            15: Added compat/ directory containing ANS implementations of Gforth features.
        !            16: Added tiny multitasker (tasker.fs).
        !            17: Added two alternatives for object-oriented programming: oof.fs, objects.fs.
        !            18: Added ans-report.fs (reports which words are used from which wordset).
        !            19: 
        !            20: New words:
        !            21: 
        !            22: Changed POPEN and PCLOSE to OPEN-PIPE and CLOSE-PIPE.
        !            23: Added FORM, ROWS, and COLS.
        !            24: added primitives EMIT-FILE, STDOUT, STDERR.
        !            25: Added TABLEs (case-sensitive wordlists).
        !            26: added POSTPONE,.
        !            27: Added the ability to combine arbitrary interpretation and compilation
        !            28: semantics (INTERPRET/COMPILE:); state-smart words were generally
        !            29: rewritten to use that mechanism.
        !            30: 
        !            31: Changes to existing words:
        !            32: 
        !            33: EMIT and TYPE now work through file words (and are redirectable).
1.1       anton      34: HEADER now stores the compilation wordlist in the header and REVEAL
                     35: reveals into that wordlist.
1.3     ! anton      36: changed behaviour of SYSTEM (no longer returns wretval, but puts it in
        !            37: $?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretval wior ).
1.1       anton      38: ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.
1.3     ! anton      39: 

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