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Re: [colorforth] Setting a pixel on the screen


Thanks Ray,

That makes sense: that it is just for "ease of use". I could see how it was working but couldn't work out the reason--I just assumed I was missing something.

Jason

Ray St. Marie said the following on 28/05/2008 14:15:
or word and double word. sorry.

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Ray St. Marie <ray.stmarie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ya, gosh, how many programs do I use this! Several! It's funny cuz
i've never not done it. It's Byte addressing, Please notice that you
are just setting things up with the 2 leftshifts so that the
definitions for ! and @ which include the definition   a,  ( defined
as 2* 2* ) which will return you back to word addressing. I suppose
this is for Chuck and for ease of use.

Your guess is better then mine. :-)



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