From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   dxf  writes:   
   >On 25/03/2024 6:53 am, minforth wrote:   
   >> I am guessing that NIP came in with TOS caching, because with it   
   >> NIP is just a stack pointer in- or decrement   
   >   
   >Likely it was frequency.  In the F83 distribution NIP occurs 21 times.   
      
   130 occurences of NIP in the Gforth image (for comparison, 545   
   occurences of DROP).   
      
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