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Abstract
FORTH is a program that interfaces keyboards with computer. It
provides all the software necessary to time-share users and manage core
and disk memory. Its key is a dictionary that divides memory into
entries that identify character strings, code and data. The resulting
language is sufficiently powerful to describe FORTH itself, and
sufficiently flexible
to make inquiries with. It may be readily extended to handle as many,
and as complex, applications as hardware permits. On the B-5500 FORTH
uses 2K of core and can express a complex application in each of the
30 1K regions of core that remain.
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