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Subject: Re: F83 vs F-PC vs ??
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Date: 26 Nov 89 02:28:55 GMT
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From article <13959@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, by lantis@argus.math.orst.edu:
> I don't want to start a civil war, but what are the advantages of F83 and
> F-PC, and what are the disadvantages of each?  Is one any great improvement
> over the other?  What about other public domain forths?  I have tried
> uniforth, and it was interesting, but the sampler did not include a 
> decompiler and the full version was over $250.  The reason I am asking this
> is I have F83 version 2.0 and someone I know sent a note saying they had
> falling in love with F-PC.  This made me wonder if I was missing something.

What you are calling F83 v2.0 I believe is what I had downloaded from
SIMTEL20 called F83-88. F-PC is just what was F83-88 renamed and it is
version 2.25 (last time I checked). F-PC 2.25 is available in the
directory PD1:<MSDOS.FORTH> on SIMTEL20.

I am in the process of learning Forth and have kicked around the various
public domain forths and have arrived at F-PC being the best. The
Uniforth smapler was the second best I had looked at.

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