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nonstandard words using PAD:

None.

operator's terminal facilities available:

After processing the OS's command line, Gforth goes into interactive mode, and you can give commands to Gforth interactively. The actual facilities available depend on how you invoke Gforth.

program data space available:

UNUSED . gives the remaining dictionary space. The total dictionary space can be specified with the -m switch (see Invoking Gforth) when Gforth starts up.

return stack space available:

You can compute the total return stack space in cells with s" RETURN-STACK-CELLS" environment? drop .. You can specify it at startup time with the -r switch (see Invoking Gforth).

stack space available:

You can compute the total data stack space in cells with s" STACK-CELLS" environment? drop .. You can specify it at startup time with the -d switch (see Invoking Gforth).

system dictionary space required, in address units:

Type here forthstart - . after startup. At the time of this writing, this gives 80080 (bytes) on a 32-bit system.