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Subject: Re: The *ultimate* Forth hardware engine?
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Date: 13 Oct 89 01:11:56 GMT
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> I was very impressed with the description of FCode, as well as a
> number of other things I have seen your name on (your proposed revisions
> to INTERPRET come to mind).  I think that you should publicize your
> efforts in Forth through articles and publications.  The computing
> community will soon have a better opinion of Forth if they see the
> quality of your work.

Thanks.  I publish a reasonable number of articles in Forth journals,
but so far I haven't published in any "respectable" publications.
Writing takes a lot of time.  I was thinking about selling some
Sun stock and hiring a writing assistant so I could publish more,
but that scheme is just daydreaming at this point.

> I am interested in seeing the final list of Forth "primitive" words
> that you arrived at.

Enclosed

> I am also interested in your version of Forth.
> Does it come with source code?  I have been thinking about developing
> a Forth-like system for IRIS workstations, as I do a lot of work
> in interactive 3D graphics and animations, which would be an excelletn
> application of Forth.

My Sun Forth product will run on 680x0-based SGI workstations, and the
C Forth product will run on MIPS-based ones.

Atari/Macintosh Forthmacs (assembly language based)
 working disk & manual  $50
 source code   $50

Sun Forth (runs on any 680x0 or SPARC Unix machine, assembly language based)
 tape, manual, and source $200

C Forth 83 (written in C, runs on nearly anything, PCs to mainframes)
 source and manual  $50



Address:

Bradley Forthware
P.O. Box 4444
Mountain View, CA 94040