Re: Running bigFORTH on amd64

David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> writes:

What are the major differences between bigFORTH and gforth?

From a practical view: AFAIK bigForth is no longer maintained, while
Gforth is (and Bernd Paysan, the author of bigForth, has put a lot of
work into Gforth in the last decade).  Also, bigForth only has IA-32
(32-bit Intel/AMD) and 68k support, while Gforth runs on a wide range
of architectures, including AMD64 (64-bit Intel/AMD) and ARM A64.

Genealogically Gforth was started by using a lot of the Forth part of
BigForth and porting it to the Gforth engine.  So at some point in the
1990s there was a lot of commonality, and there has been some
cross-fertilization over the years, but eventually Bernd put the focus
on Gforth.

- anton
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