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From: ir230@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (john wavrik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: porting an MS-DOS Forth to a 386 Unix/Xenix
Summary: comp.lang.forth -- a realistic view
Keywords: MS-DOS, Forth, porting, source, help
Message-ID: <5317@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 18:37:57 GMT
References: <1989Nov20.211822.1015@tree.uucp>
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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stever@tree.uucp (Steve Rudek) writes:
> I said all that and I got . . . silence.  Doesn't anyone knowledgeable who
> reads this group share my interest in getting F83 or F-PC or some other
> good Forth to run on a 386 Unix??  Did my message fail to get widely
> distributed to the net?  Did I say something so "silly" or boring in my
> posting that everyone immediately pressed "n"?  Maybe none of the serious Forth
> people who follow this group work on 386 Unix machines?  I suppose you might
> be divided between those who read usenet but only work on MS-DOS and those
> who do use Unix but have high end Sun workstations and VAX minicomputers??

People rarely post a message to the net saying "I don't know the answer to
the question asked by Steve Rudek"

Somehow when we post to this newsgroup we believe that we are addressing the
entire Forth community. Periodically I post a call for people who are involved
in teaching Forth and are interested in education -- and I get silence too.
There are people involved in teaching Forth, they just aren't on USENET.

[Actually there are only about 10 people on comp.lang.forth (even this is a 
bit misleading since Tom Almy, Bill Bouma, Mitch Bradley, and John Wavrik are 
really pseudonyms for one person who periodically writes a series of heated 
exchanges to stir things up)] 

P.S. I know of at least one person who responded to you by email.


                                                  John J Wavrik 
             jjwavrik@ucsd.edu                    Dept of Math  C-012 
                                                  Univ of Calif - San Diego 
                                                  La Jolla, CA  92093