Episode 89 - Forth
Advent of Computing
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The N C Four Thousand Is a Bit of a Stretch, but It's a Lot of Fun.
In lisp, you have a scant handful of functions that are used to build up the rest of the language. Moore took thi set of primitives and ported it straight over to silicon. He already had this existing specification used during compilation of fourth something deep in the here be dragon's zone, so why not turn that virtual speck into a physical device? It's the kind of thing programmers dream about. Honestly.
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