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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: FORTH, the language
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Date: 26 Jul 89 15:23:50 GMT
References: <8907251409.AA17215@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <8907251409.AA17215@jade.berkeley.edu> Forth Interest Group International List <FIGI-L%SCFVM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:

>b) Chuck tends to push a new radical idea every few months or so. [...]
>   2) Typing on a 5-finger keyboard, where you just type in the binary
>   value for the ASCII keyboard (the high bits are "sticky" somehow).

I saw him type with this.  There were two additional "keys" (actually 
Microswitches), one for the left side of the palm and one for the right side.
This gave him complete ASCII keyboard.  Personally, I thought the whole thing
was embarassing -- obviously much slower and more confusing than a standard
keyboard.  This sort of thing doesn't help his credibility or the credibility
of Forth.  (I won't dispute his genius, just that he does seem to have more
than his share of harebrained ideas!)

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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