--- gforth/README 2003/03/09 15:16:45 1.50 +++ gforth/README 2003/08/25 16:14:25 1.55 @@ -1,34 +1,37 @@ -This snapshot has been tested quite well for portability. The main -thing missing before the release is an update to the documentation. - Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice -features such as input completion and history and a powerful locals -facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth employs traditional -implementation techniques: its inner innerpreter is indirect or direct -threaded. Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license -(see COPYING). +features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a +decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a +manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with +newer techniques for portability and performance performance: its +inner innerpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but +you can also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter. +Gforth is distributed under the GNU General Public license (see +COPYING). Gforth runs under Unix, Win95, OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the following platforms: -alpha-dec-osf4.0d -alpha-unknown-linux-gnu -hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu -hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 -i386-unknown-freebsd4.7 -i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1 -i686-pc-linux-gnu -mips-dec-ultrix4.3 -mipsel-pc-linux-gnu -mips-sgi-irix6.5 -powerpc-apple-darwin5.4 -powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu + alpha-dec-osf4.0d + alpha-unknown-linux-gnu + alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu + hppa1.1-unknown-linux-gnu + hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00 + hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 + i386-unknown-freebsd5.1 + i686-pc-cygwin + i686-pc-linux-gnu + mips-sgi-irix6.5 + mipsel-pc-linux-gnu + powerpc-apple-darwin5.4 + powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu + sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 + sparc-unknown-linux-gnu Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS, -Windows 95, and OS/2. To start the system, just say `gforth' (after -installing it). +Windows 95, and OS/2, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have a binary package. +To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it). You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/ and its mirrors or at