Annotation of gforth/NEWS, revision 1.3
1.1 anton 1: User-visible changes between 0.1beta and 0.2.0
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1.3 ! anton 3: Portability and Installation:
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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:
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! 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:
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! 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:
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! 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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