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== Uses ==

Forth has a niche in astronomical and space applications<ref name="C4Oss">{{Cite web | url=http://forth.gsfc.nasa.gov | title=Space Related Applications of Forth | access-date=2007-09-04 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024223709/http://forth.gsfc.nasa.gov/ | archive-date=2010-10-24}}</ref> as well as a history in [[embedded system]]s. The [[Open Firmware]] [[booting|boot ROMsROM]]s used by [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], [[IBM]], [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]], and [[OLPC XO|OLPC XO-1]] contain a Forth environment.

Forth has often been used to bring up new hardware. Forth was the first [[Resident monitor|resident software]] on the new [[Intel 8086]] chip in 1978, and MacFORTH was the first resident development system for the [[Macintosh 128K]] in 1984.<ref name="evolution" />