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The [[Canon Cat]] (1987) uses Forth for its system programming.
[[Rockwell International|Rockwell]] produced single-chip microcomputers with resident Forth kernels: the R65F11 and R65F12.
ASYST was a Forth expansion for measuring and controlling on PCs.<ref name="Rwirj">Campbell et al, "Up and Running with Asyst 2.0", MacMillan Software Co., 1987</ref> == History ==
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(Likewise, [[Lisp machine]]s were specifically designed to support developing and running programs written in Lisp, the [[Pascal MicroEngine]] was specifically designed to support developing and running programs written in Pascal, etc.).
The first commercially available single-chip Forth engine was the Rockwell R65F11
a chip that includes a Forth kernel in ROM,
an [[MOS Technology 6502#Variations and derivatives | enhanced 6502]], SRAM, and various interface circuits that previously required peripheral chips.<ref name="dumse" /><ref>
Ed Schmauch.
[http://www.forth.org/bournemouth/jfar/vol4/no2/article48.pdf "A Computerized Corrosion Monitoring System"]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}.
1986.
</ref><ref>Lawrence P. Forsley.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx8YAQAAMAAJ "Embedded systems: 1990 Rochester Forth Conference: June 12 – 16th, 1990 University of Rochester"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325214054/http://books.google.com/books?id=Yx8YAQAAMAAJ |date=2015-03-25}}.
p. 51.</ref><ref>Rockwell.
[http://www.smallestplcoftheworld.org/RSC-FORTH_User's_Manual.pdf "RSC-Forth User's Manual"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207015149/http://smallestplcoftheworld.org/RSC-FORTH_User%27s_Manual.pdf |date=2013-12-07}}.
1983.</ref><ref>{{cite web
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Many other commercial CPUs (Harris RTX-2000, Novix NC4016, F21, MARC4, KimKlone, etc.) and many [[homebrew CPU]]s
(My4TH, J1, H2, Mark 1 FORTH Computer, etc.)
are specifically designed to run Forth.
Typically they implement common Forth primitives such as the "Forth NEXT" as single instructions.
==Implementations==
Because Forth is simple to implement and has no standard reference implementation, there are numerous versions of the language. In addition to supporting the standard varieties of desktop computer systems ([[POSIX]], [[Microsoft Windows]], [[macOS]]), many of these Forth systems also target a variety of [[embedded system]]s. Listed here are some of the systems which conform to the 1994 {{Not a typo|ANS}} <!-- not a misspelling --> Forth standard.
* ASYST, a Forth-like system for data collection and analysis <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hary |first1=David |first2=Koichi |last2=Oshio |first3=Steven D. |last3=Flanagan|title=The ASYST Software for Scientific Computing |journal=Science |volume=236 |issue=4805 |date=1987 |pages=1128–32 |jstor=1699106 |pmid=17799670 |doi=10.1126/science.236.4805.1128 |bibcode=1987Sci...236.1128H |s2cid=30463062}}</ref><ref name="Rwirj" />
* [[Gforth]], a portable {{Not a typo|ANS}} Forth implementation from the [[GNU Project]]
* [https://home.hccnet.nl/anij/nof/noforth.html noForth], an ANS Forth implementation (as far as possible) for Flash microcontrollers (MSP430, RISC-V & RP2040)
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