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As you learn Forth, it learns from you (1981)
Jupiter Ace Resource site - As you learn Forth, it learns from you article from Practical Computing August 1981
• Because of the requirement in CP/M for a text processing area at 100 Hex and a small CP/M jump table in the first page of memory, it is very difficult to write ROMable code which starts from zero. So, when I laid my hands on a copy of the Byte book, Threaded Interpretative Languages by R G Loeliger, I had no excuse not to write my own version of Forth to run under North Star DOS. This I accomplished in a matter of days using Allen Ashley's excellent PDS assembly-language development system, which includes a superb text editor and macro assembler, and a debugging utility which must be the finest available anywhere for the Z-80 microprocessor.
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