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Re: Having fun with embedded Forth in BASIC

From Paul Rubin@21:1/5 to Hans Bezemer on Tue May 13 11:55:45 2025

Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> writes:

This is the "Fignition" benchmark - which is an 8-bit Raspberry Pi
with a Forth OS. So this one is excellent for 8-bit computers.

Did you mean 8 bit Arduino? It was apparently built around an
Atmega168. It was apparently slower than the Z80 boards of earlier
times because of its use of external ram and flash.

http://www.doctormonk.com/2012/02/fignition-30-single-board-computer-with.html

https://sites.google.com/site/libby8dev/fignition/performance

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