Re: [Amforth-devel] Question about bootstrapping

[Andreas R. <a.r...@gm...>]

Erich Waelde <ew....@na...> writes:

> Hi,
>
>> Nice! I'm playing with the idea of using amforth on an ATmega8. With
>> just 8K of RAM, it might make sense to move the compiler onto the PC,
>> and just have the inner interpreter on the microcontroller -- or is that
>> just crazytalk?
>
> an atmega8 is a little tight. You barely get the amforth system into the
> 8k flash --- amforth is comfortable and therefore not *that* tiny. A bigger
> controller is more fun. I' using atmega32.
>
I have an atmega328 as well, an I'll probably put amforth on it, once
I've assembled my ISP device. However, my little brother got an
Asuro[0], which comes with atmega8, hence my questions.

[0] http://www.arexx.com/arexx.php?cmd=goto&cparam=p_asuro

> There is 1k RAM on an atmega8, and 2k on an atmega32. Sounds little, but is
> plenty for my stuff.
>
> Moving the compiler onto the PC is certainly possible, this stuff is called
> "umbilical Forth". 
>
OK, thanks -- now I know what to google for :-).

> One example of such an implementation is Byteforth by Willem
> Ouwerkerk. amforth ist not an umbilical forth.
>
>From a quick look, it seems Byteforth is (a) Windows-centric and (b)
closed source, which makes it uninteresting to me. Thanks for the
pointer anyways.

Regards, Rotty
-- 
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>