00:00:00 --- log: started forth/17.09.29 01:31:54 --- join: wa5qjh (~Thunderbi@freebsd/user/wa5qjh) joined #forth 01:59:32 --- join: leaverite (~quassel@175.158.225.206) joined #forth 01:59:32 --- quit: leaverite (Changing host) 01:59:32 --- join: leaverite (~quassel@freebsd/user/wa5qjh) joined #forth 02:01:19 after a few blackouts here, I'm back. who knows for how long. 02:02:10 --- nick: leaverite -> wa5qjh_ 02:02:14 .. 02:32:30 --- quit: mnemnion (Remote host closed the connection) 02:57:23 --- join: gravicappa (~gravicapp@ppp83-237-175-84.pppoe.mtu-net.ru) joined #forth 03:43:02 --- quit: gravicappa (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 03:52:01 --- quit: nighty- (Quit: Disappears in a puff of smoke) 04:19:56 --- quit: wa5qjh_ (Remote host closed the connection) 04:19:57 --- quit: wa5qjh (Remote host closed the connection) 04:33:04 --- join: mnemnion (~mnemnion@2601:643:8102:7c95:30b1:845e:bcd8:863f) joined #forth 04:37:11 --- join: nighty- (~nighty@s229123.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp) joined #forth 04:37:25 --- quit: mnemnion (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) 05:00:00 --- join: mnemnion (~mnemnion@2601:643:8102:7c95:93:7b26:7d65:6343) joined #forth 05:04:37 --- quit: mnemnion (Ping timeout: 258 seconds) 05:09:07 I don't see the whole big deal about ANS forth 05:09:13 some of it is cool and some of it is kinda lame 05:47:27 --- quit: rtmanpages (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 05:59:21 Kinda like many other programming language standards. 06:14:18 --- quit: dys (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 06:39:54 --- join: Lambdajack (~user@178.220.127.25) joined #forth 06:40:59 --- quit: CORDIC (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) 06:44:41 --- join: MickyW (~MickyW@p57A2FF09.dip0.t-ipconnect.de) joined #forth 07:14:35 --- join: dys (~dys@2003:5b:203b:100:6af7:28ff:fe06:801) joined #forth 07:33:23 --- join: mnemnion (~mnemnion@2601:643:8102:7c95:93:7b26:7d65:6343) joined #forth 07:35:49 --- join: Chef_Gromboli (~Chef_Grom@static-72-88-80-103.bflony.fios.verizon.net) joined #forth 07:38:00 --- quit: mnemnion (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 07:54:56 --- join: rtmanpages (~rtmanpage@131.sub-174-204-19.myvzw.com) joined #forth 09:26:49 --- quit: dys (Ping timeout: 258 seconds) 09:49:52 --- join: impomatic (~impomatic@host81-136-106-105.range81-136.btcentralplus.com) joined #forth 10:13:55 --- join: muzgo (~abc@mail.oitobits.net) joined #forth 10:15:43 --- quit: Uniju (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 10:34:19 --- quit: rtmanpages (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) 10:39:13 --- join: Keshl_ (~Purple@24.115.185.149.res-cmts.gld.ptd.net) joined #forth 10:42:58 --- quit: Keshl (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 10:57:50 --- join: mnemnion (~mnemnion@2601:643:8102:7c95:93:7b26:7d65:6343) joined #forth 11:55:40 --- quit: muzgo (Quit: leaving) 11:57:53 --- join: karswell (~user@3.91.199.146.dyn.plus.net) joined #forth 12:29:46 --- join: Uniju (~frog_styl@cpe-74-78-4-232.mass.res.rr.com) joined #forth 12:42:12 --- join: rtmanpages (~rtmanpage@171.sub-174-204-2.myvzw.com) joined #forth 13:51:53 --- quit: Zarutian_PI (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 13:52:20 --- join: Zarutian_PI (~3.1415@89.17.133.173) joined #forth 15:43:37 --- join: wa5qjh (~Thunderbi@freebsd/user/wa5qjh) joined #forth 15:57:39 --- quit: MickyW (Quit: Leaving. Have a nice time.) 16:04:55 --- join: MickyW (~MickyW@p57A2FF09.dip0.t-ipconnect.de) joined #forth 16:29:19 --- quit: wa5qjh (Remote host closed the connection) 17:28:59 --- quit: MickyW (Quit: Leaving. Have a nice time.) 18:29:47 $ gforth -e "128 hex . cr bye" 18:29:47 80 18:29:47 $ gforth -e "128 hex. cr bye" 18:29:47 $80 18:30:44 gforth -e "-128 hex. cr bye" 18:30:44 $FFFFFFFFFFFFFF80 18:36:05 $ gforth -e "-128 255 and hex. cr bye" 18:36:06 $80 18:39:59 $ gforth -e "-128 negate negate hex. cr bye" 18:39:59 $FFFFFFFFFFFFFF80 18:40:47 $ gforth -e "-128 negate hex. cr bye" 18:40:47 $80 18:43:01 This looks like 64-bit math!!! 19:02:10 good job 19:02:35 computers are 64-bit these days 19:28:38 Lately I have been programming 8-bit computers. 19:29:45 At home I work with the Motorola 6809 and at work I am working with the Motorola/Freescale/NXP 68HC08/HCS08/S08. 19:31:12 Which are perfectly capable of doing 64-bit math also. 19:33:56 64-bit computers should have 64-bit memory pointers for reading memory. 19:35:02 A 32-bit memory pointer can read 4GB of memory (without paging). 19:39:43 it sure can 19:40:13 A 64-bit memory pointer can read 4GB*4GB = 16*1024^6 = 16 exa-bytes. 19:40:18 why do you come here and talk like you think this stuff is news to anybody? 19:42:07 I have seen in my life time going from systems with 4kB to 32GB, I wonder how long before 16 exa-bytes is not enough and we will need more. 19:44:45 It has taken about 40 years to go from 4kb to 32GB. 19:45:02 It has taken about 40 years to go from 4kB to 32GB. 19:47:08 Perhaps we can make it another 40 years. 19:48:37 --- quit: rtmanpages (Remote host closed the connection) 19:54:53 I think that young people coming fresh out of collage may find it hard to understand that people once had 4kB of RAM and liked it. 19:57:35 I am glad I never had to use punch cards! 19:59:07 Cassette tape data storage was not much fun. 20:06:30 I think that forth was most popular during the 1980s. 20:09:12 --- join: rtmanpages (~rtmanpage@171.sub-174-204-2.myvzw.com) joined #forth 20:12:00 --- quit: rtmanpages (Remote host closed the connection) 20:13:57 Someone wast telling that forth is used today in applications like radio telescopes. 20:33:35 --- quit: Chef_Gromboli (Quit: Leaving) 21:28:50 Well, I have devices with less than 4K RAM today, and I quite like it. 21:29:20 yep 21:29:23 4K is a lot 21:30:06 Right. I try to target 1K flash, 64 bytes RAM. 21:30:50 Also, good to know the '08 is still in use. 21:32:24 08? 21:33:05 68HC08, or derivatives. 22:14:34 --- join: wa5qjh (~Thunderbi@freebsd/user/wa5qjh) joined #forth 22:20:40 --- join: ZombieChicken (~weechat@gateway/tor-sasl/forgottenwizard) joined #forth 22:35:13 --- quit: roundsf (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 22:43:23 --- quit: wa5qjh (Remote host closed the connection) 22:46:04 --- join: wa5qjh (~Thunderbi@freebsd/user/wa5qjh) joined #forth 22:50:20 --- quit: wa5qjh (Remote host closed the connection) 22:54:26 --- join: wa5qjh (~Thunderbi@freebsd/user/wa5qjh) joined #forth 23:08:01 --- join: proteus-guy (~proteusgu@183.88.69.154) joined #forth 23:14:32 --- join: leaverite (~quassel@freebsd/user/wa5qjh) joined #forth 23:15:27 --- nick: leaverite -> wa5qjh_ 23:15:59 --- nick: wa5qjh -> leaverite 23:16:10 --- nick: wa5qjh_ -> wa5qjh 23:16:37 --- nick: leaverite -> wa5qjh_ 23:59:59 --- log: ended forth/17.09.29