(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1984-12)
Akens, John J.
Woods Hole FORTH, called WFORTH, is a real time language for the RCA 1806
microprocessor. It follows the fig-FORTH standard, and is used by Alvin for
data acquisition and display tasks, plus playback and processing tasks at sea
and ashore. WFORTH is optimized for simple networking with RS-232 uarts.
Programs can be installed in Eprom for use in unattended systems and can be
configured to run a specific task when power is applied. The error handling
can be customized to permit continued operation when errors are encountered.
Extensive utilities and development tools are included such as full screen
editor; the fig line editor; a single pass assembler; floating point support;
disk file access; communication utilities for uploading or downloading files
or blocks of memory; and documentation utilities. The complete sources and a
glossary for WFORTH are included in this publication. Versions are supplied
which include compiled development, floating point, and assembler utilities.
