Re: Power Up - Conversion From Older Forth

Mark Ham wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> I am a newbie to this architecture but the only thing I can find
> is something that states Forth, Inc. and the newer environment is
> polyFORTH ISD-4 Cf80186/Pmsd. In the older environment the cells are 8
> bit (after 32k they produce negative values when doing a ".") and in the
> newer environment they are 16.

   ...

The most positive 8-bit signed number is 127.

Jerry

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