Chuck Moore

Invented Forth

Date of birth: 1938 edit

Current residence: Sierra City, California edit

Important software Chuck Moore has worked on:

Forth
Color Forth

Timeline:

Year	Event
1968	At the NRAO invented the initial version of the Forth language
1971	Co-founded Forth, Inc.
1980s	Turned his attention and Forth development techniques to CPU design, got several patents
1980-90s	Explored alternate Forth architectures
1983	Developed the NC4000 processor, derivative has been used in numerous NASA mission
1985	Developed the Sh-Boom processor.
1990	Developed his own VLSI CAD system (OKAD)
1990	MuP21 chip
1993	F21 chip
1996	colorForth for the IBM PC
2001	Rewrote OKAD in colorForth and designed the c18 processor.
2005	Developed seaForth-24 multi-core processor.

Links to and from Wikipedia entry (as of 2008-12-03 06:04:16 GMT):

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Books:

Programming a Problem-oriented Language by Moore, C.H (1970)

Articles and Papers:

"SAO Differential Orbit Improvement Program" by Veis, George and Moore, C.H. in Tracking Programs and Orbit Determination Seminar Proceedings. Pasadena CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratories (1960)
"High-level Programming for Microprocessors" by Rather, E.D. and Moore, C.H. in Proceedings of Electro 76 (???)
"The FORTH Approach to Operating Systems," by Rather, E.D. and Moore, C.H. in Proceedings of the ACM, pp. 233-240 (Oct. 1976)
"FORTH Programmer's Guide" by Rather, E.D., Moore, C.H., and Hollis, J.M. in NRAO Computer Division Internal Report #17 (1974)
"FORTH Programmer's Guide" by Rather, E.D. and Moore, C.H. in NRAO Computer Division Internal Report #11 (1972)
"Letter to the Editor of Forth Dimensions" by ??? in external Forth resources3, 1 (1983)
"FORTH, The Last Ten Years and the Next Two Weeks..." by Moore, C.H. in Forth Dimensions, external Forth resources1, 6 (1980)
"The FORTH Program for Spectral Line Observing on NRAO's 36 ft Telescope" by Moore, C.H. and Rather, E.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series, 15, 3 (June 1974)
"FORTH: A New Way to Program a Computer" by Moore, C.H. in Proceedings of the Symposium on Collection and Analysis of Astrophysical Data at NRAO, Charlottesville, VA, Nov. 13-15 (1972)
"FORTH: A New Way to Program a Computer" by Moore, C.H. in Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series, 15, 3 (June 1974)
"Programming a Problem-oriented Language" by Moore, C.H. in Amsterdam, NY: Mohasco Industries Inc. (internal pub.) (1970)
"FORTH – A Language for Interactive Computing" by Moore, Charles H. and Leach, G.C. in Amsterdam, NY: Mohasco Industries Inc. (internal pub.) (1970)
"Predictions for Photographic Tracking Stations – APO Ephemeris 4" by Moore, Charles H. and Lautman, D.A. in SAO Special Report #11, G.F. Schilling, ed. Cambridge, MA: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (1958)
"Fast Processor Chip Takes Its Instructions Directly from Forth," by Golden, J., Moore, C.H. and Brodie, L. in Electronic Design (March 21, 1985)
"The Evolution of FORTH – An Unusual Language." by Moore, C.H. in Byte (August 1980)