2022-07-18 01:21:11 Ok, I puttered over it several more hours. It's sitting at 507 bytes now, and it has basic stack frames and primitives for dup, drop, swap, nip, and over. I gave up the built in print character word - I can bootstrap that in with the BIOS access faciity. And I gave up the C word for cell size. 2022-07-18 01:21:32 I hated doing that, but I realized this thing is wedded to 8086 real mode anyway, so it's inherently 16 bits. 2022-07-18 01:21:43 I can bootstrap "2". 2022-07-18 01:22:09 I think it's probably designed as well as its going to get now - I don't see anything else that can be spared. 2022-07-18 10:06:53 crc: your forth is mentioned on a page linked from hackernews! https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Forth 2022-07-18 10:07:22 oh this too! https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Retro 2022-07-18 10:09:21 1 FAME +! 2022-07-18 13:07:37 :-) 2022-07-18 15:04:28 The (for the most part) lack of microcontroller forths on that list seems strange 2022-07-18 15:04:52 I was thinking of Mecrisp, but there are quite a few others for AVR and other chips