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From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Mon Jan 31 19:03:35 2005

Rumor has it that Tony Duell may have mentioned these words:
> > OK, to add a little bit of CC to this. ISTR that Forth was originally
> > developed on PDP-11s but what other classic hardware of the era was it
> > used? Which of these will fit inside the Golf :-)
>
>Isn't it quicker to list the classic computers that don't run Forth?
>Heck, there's even a Forth ROM for the HP71 and a Forth tape for the HP75...

I keep hearing about this new-fangled 'Forth' thingy, and I keep saying to
my self -- someday I'll learn it...

but I don't have it yet for any of my machines, to my knowledge.

Over on the Model 100 list, a listmember there was able to get the book
'Thinking Forth' republished in PDF format through it's author, Leo Brodie.

The link to the message in the archives (which are online now... ;-) ) is here:

http://ccarchive.30below.com/cgi-bin/wrapper?list=m100&cmd=showthread&month=200501&threadid=kkhmbidindnehjmdheib

Or this tinyurl thingy...

http://tinyurl.com/4bykh

[[ As an offtopic aside -- how long are those thingies cached, anyway??? ]]

Now I just have to get a Forth interpreter/compiler for the M100...

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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