Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!well!jax
From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Success of FORTH in the marketplace
Summary: Vesta Technology, Inc., Makers and Programmers of Fine SBC's
Keywords: SBC,Vesta,embedded,control,NOAA,Chrysler,$$$
Message-ID: <12824@well.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 89 00:32:40 GMT
References: <33300@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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	At Vesta Technology, Inc., we manufacture single board computers
with ROMmed 83-STANDARD on board featuring host disking and ROMmable
autoboot overlays. Our customers include Chrysler, NOAA, IBM and other
Fortune-500 and gov't. orgs., along with a slew of garage enterprises
and hopeful robotocists and inventors!

	We also do custom hardware design and custom programming.

	Besides the tremendous success of our line of off-the-shelf
easy-to-program SBC's, our custom software development business has
grown by leaps and bounds.

	Year-to-date this five-year-old startup enterprise has billed
over $150,000 in custom Forth projects.

	Incidentally, our latest largish project involved distributed
processing on four SBC's. Three were programmed in Forth, one in C/ASM.
Guess which three were finished ahead of deadline? Guess which one
we are drumming our fingers while waiting for?
 
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