USE OF FORTH IN A PORTABLE, POINT OF SALE ENVIRONMENT.

Our introduction to Forth has been dictated by the hardware, the Panasonic HHC. This machine is highly portable (only 2 pounds) and is widely used in the insurance environment to do sales illustrations of products. We have had to implement strict project management structures to make our Forth environment productive, and to keep the lines of communication clear with our clients. The hardware environment and the EPROMing methodology limits some of the well known advantages of Forth. Overall, we find Forth to be special because it allows for very small code and the easy access to hardware controls and the assembler. We have developed many routines and structures to enhance the programming environment provided by Panasonic.