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feat(v4.0.0): nodes that talk -- ports, a node born empty, and the fabric

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MESH.md step 1, in the engine, which knows nothing of StarForth or of any
kernel.

- node: V4_PORTS ports (8), a build parameter; "any port" and the port the
  last such read came from; a read blocks until the neighbour writes, as a
  write blocks until the neighbour reads; v4_node_born: empty, P at "any
  port"
- exec: a fetch from a port -- @ @b @+ @p, or of an instruction word when P
  is a port -- waits for a word; a node executes what arrives at a port
  without advancing P; a blocked node goes on from the slot it stopped at
- fabric: the nodes there are and the table of how their ports are wired,
  both changed while the nodes run; devices on a port; asleep and awake; a
  step is every unblocked node executing one instruction word, then every
  write with a reader waiting being handed over
- DECOMPOSITION.md section 6: four named ports withdrawn for V4_PORTS
  numbered ones and wiring as data, as ruled

Verified: tests/test_fabric.c, 53 checks at both widths: two nodes exchange
words; an empty node is filled through its port by a device, and by another
node, and runs what it was sent; a word is passed on by a node in between;
a waiting node executes nothing; the wiring is changed while they run; a
node is put to sleep, woken and removed while looping; a node is born while
others run; the fabric is given more room.  make -C v4 test and make -C v4
sanitize pass.  The single-node products are unchanged: hosted-check on
three ISAs, and clean qemu with STARFORTH_V4=1 on amd64, aarch64 and
riscv64 with lines typed at each prompt (logs/20261006-074907, -075150,
-075532).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ capsule_dir := -DV4_CAPSULE_DIR='"$(HERE)/capsule"'
# The hosted system below and the bare-metal kernel (kernel/Makefile,
# STARFORTH_V4=1) link the 64-bit one. docs/v4.0.0/NUCLEUS.md.
HOST_DEFS := -DV4_NODE_WORDS=$(HOST_WORDS) -DV4_DATA_RING=$(HOST_DATA_RING) -DV4_RET_RING=$(HOST_RET_RING)
ENGINE_SRCS := $(addprefix $(HERE)/src/,node.c exec.c stack.c iword.c heat.c guard.c image.c)
ENGINE_SRCS := $(addprefix $(HERE)/src/,node.c exec.c stack.c iword.c heat.c guard.c image.c fabric.c)
define IMAGE_RULE
$(BINDIR)/mkimage-$(1): $(HERE)/tools/mkimage.c $$(SRCS) $$(wildcard $(HERE)/include/v4/*.h) $(HERE)/tests/host_map.h $(HERE)/Makefile