5 - Forth Interest Group

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FORTH System
NEW PRODUCTS
6800 d 6809 FORTH
t FORTH+
plus Assembler, CRT Editor
f irmFORTH
produces compacted
ROhable code
Kenyon Microsystems
3350 Walnut Bend
Houston, Texas 77042
Phone (713)978-6933
CRT EDITOR AND
FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
$100
$250
$350
The Decision Resources File Manage-
ment System (FMS-4) for the FORTH
language has extensive vocabulary for
creating, maintaining and accessing
name files.
Disk space is dynamically allocated
and deallocated so there is never any
need to reorganize a disk. From the
user viewpoint, access is to logical
records; FMS-4 performs the mapping to
physical screens.
Files may be referenced by nalce
without concern for the physical
location of the file on disk. FMS-4
supports sequential and direct access
while preserving FORTH's facilities
for addressing screens by number.
FMS-4 maintains a file directory of
up to 47 entries. Each file may con-
sist of from one to 246 records (1024
bytes per screen) in a single volume
(single density diskette). It is also
possible to extend FMS to control
multiple volume files and to support
larger directories.
In addition to an extensive cuminand
set, there are many lower level primi-
tives which may be combined to define
a virtually unlimited set of comm.inds.
Computer system hardwarc sliould
include :
One or more 8" IBM compatible
floppy disk drives
Enough memory to support 6K
bytes (on an 8 bit processor)
for FMS-4 in addition to the
FORTH nucleus and any other
concurrently resident applica-
tions.
An 808018085 or 280 cpu.
A CRT or printing terminal
which supports upper and lower
case.
System software should include:
fig-FORTH compatible nucleus
or equivalent.
An assembler for the target
cpu. DRC can supply an 8080
assembler at additional cost.
FMS-4 source code is delivered
ready to run (on compatible systems)
on a single density 8" soft sectored
diskette (IBM 3740).
A complete user manual describing
all facets of FMS-4 operation is
provided. The manual includes an
extensive glossary which defines and
documents the usage of each word in
the FMS vocabulary.
Wordsmith is a CRT screen editor
which is integrated with Decision
Resources' File Management System -
FMS-4. The combination is an espe-
cially powerful file oriented editor
which combines the extensive disk
space management facilities of FMS-4
with the flexibility and immediacy of
on-screen editing.
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