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   Anton Ertl to albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl   
   Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64   
   05 Jul 25 14:35:39   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:   
   >The theory is that assembler Forth are less portable.   
   >I had a 64 bit ciforth running in a matter of weeks (2008).   
      
   Gforth ran on AMD64 out of the box in 2003.  With a little more effort   
   (<2h) some additional performance features were enabled.  Similar on   
   IA-64 (2003), ARM A64 (2014), and RV64GC (2018).   
      
   - anton   
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