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This is my attempt at a FORTH implementation in 8086 Assembler for
Microsoft DOS.
HOW TO COMPILE
Run `make' on a UNIX host system with NASM installed.
HOW TO RUN
Run `make run' to start DOSBox automatically, or run FORTH.COM on a
real MS DOS machine or emulator.
DOCUMENTATION
Please consult <WORDS.TXT> for a list of words and their use.
IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
The structure of a dictionary entry is shown in Fig. 1.
+--------+-------------------------+
|Byte |Field name |
+--------+-------------------------+
|0-1 |Link pointer |
+--------+-------------------------+
|2 |Length |
+--------+-------------------------+
|3..N |Name |
+--------+-------------------------+
|N+1.. |Body (aligned to 2 bytes)|
+--------+-------------------------+
Fig. 1: Dictionary entry
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