
              Riscy Pygness -- Pygmy Forth for the ARM

Code and documentation copyright 2004-2007, Frank C. Sergeant. 

MIT/BSD-style license, see COPYING and LICENSE.txt.

The full documentation is at

     http://pygmy.utoh.org/riscy

Riscy Pygness is a 32-bit multitasking Forth for the ARM.  It includes
code for reading and writing MMC (MultiMediaCard) flash disks.

This version focuses on minimizing size rather than maximizing speed
and runs on the NXP (formerly Philips) LPC2106 and LPC2378 ARM CPUs as
found on Olimex boards and with a minor change or two to set crystal
clock speed, baud rate, etc., it should run on the tinyARM board from
New Micros, Inc. and all or most other NXP lpc2xxx chips.

It should be easy to port to other ARM variants.

This version keeps heads on the host and uses a smart terminal to
provide a fully interactive Forth yet being economical with target
resources.

See the file FILES for an overview of the files and the file COPYING
for more information about the copyright and license (essentially
freely usable and distributable by anyone for any purpose).

I look on Pygmy Forth more or less as "bannerware".  I use various
versions of Pygmy Forth in my consulting work.  Over the years, a
number of clients have found me because of the 16-bit Pygmy Forth for
the PC, which is widely available.  Hopefully, Riscy Pygness will
continue in that tradition.  So, you are welcome to use it and
distribute it without paying me anything, as it helps advertise my
consulting services.


-- 
Frank
