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The Program
The dictionary organizes core and thus forms a major component of FORTH.
However most words do not modify the dictionary - they merely reside
there.
Fig. 3 is a functional diagram of FORTH. The major blocks besides
the dictionary are the scanner and the queue. Notice that although FORTH
implements a supervisor, compiler and loader these aspects cannot be
localized.
Components of FORTH
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