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Forth was popular in the early 1980s,<ref name="1AvuY">{{Citation | title=The Forth Language | journal=BYTE Magazine |volume=5 |issue=8 | year=1980 | url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-08/}}</ref> because it was well suited to the limited memory of [[microcomputer]]s. The ease of implementing the language led to many implementations.<ref name="family-tree">{{Cite web | url=https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/family-tree/ | title=Forth family tree and timeline | author=M. Anton Ertl}}</ref> The [[Jupiter Ace|Jupiter ACE]] home computer has Forth in its [[Read-only memory|ROM]]-resident operating system. Insoft GraFORTH is a version of Forth with graphics extensions for the Apple II.<ref name="gWyzb">{{Cite web |last1=Lutus |first1=Paul |title=GraFORTH Language Manual |url=https://archive.org/details/graforth1 |website=archive.org |publisher=Insoft |date=1982}}</ref>
Common practice was codified in the de facto standards FORTH-79<ref name="qyrcN">{{Cite web | url=https://www.physics.wisc.edu/~lmaurer/forth/Forth-79.pdf | title=The Forth-79 Standard | access-date=2023-04-29}}</ref> and FORTH-83<ref name="BQ2oi">{{Cite web | url=https://forth.sourceforge.net/standard/fst83/ | title=The Forth-83 Standard | access-date=2023-04-29 | archive-date=2023-04-05 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405001333/https://forth.sourceforge.net/standard/fst83/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> in the years 1979 and 1983, respectively. These standards were unified by [[American National Standards Institute|ANSI]] in 1994, commonly referred to as {{Not a typo|ANS}} <!-- not a misspelling --> Forth.<ref name="IGDIN">{{Cite web | publisher = ANSI technical committee X3J14 | date = 24 March 1994 | url = https://www.taygeta.com/forth/dpans.html | title = Programming Languages: Forth | access-date = 2006-06-03}}</ref><ref name="KojQK">{{Cite web | publisher = Quartus Handheld Software | date = 13 September 2005 | url = http://quartus.net/files/PalmOS/Forth/Docs/stdref.pdf | title = Standard Forth (ANSI INCITS 215-1994) Reference | access-date = 2023-04-29}}</ref>
As of 2018, the source for the original 1130 version of FORTH has been recovered, and is now being updated to run on a restored or emulated 1130 system.<ref name="BtuRy">{{Cite web |last1=Claunch |first1=Carl |title=Restoring the original source code for FORTH on the IBM 1130 |url=https://rescue1130.blogspot.com/2018/03/restoring-original-source-code-for.html |website=rescue1130 |access-date=July 30, 2018|date=2018-03-02}}</ref>
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