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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: porting an MS-DOS Forth to a 386 Unix/Xenix
Keywords: MS-DOS, Forth, porting, source, help
Message-ID: <6420@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 89 17:35:33 GMT
References: <1989Nov20.211822.1015@tree.uucp> <5317@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <5317@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ir230@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (john wavrik) writes:
>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??

Steve,

We (my group at Tektronix) has contracted to get a 386 UNIX with X Windows
support. Our problem has been to get a working Unix system to send to the
contractor! The final system should be commercially available (not through
us) but it won't be Public Domain.

Why is it that people are willing to pay good money for other languages,
but expect to get good Forths for free?  Why did I decide to make a few bucks
(and *very* few) with Forth when I could have made it rich with a
"politically correct" language used by people with $money$?

>[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)] 

[John, are you taking credit for other postings? Or am I responding to myself
occasionally? Have I added enough heat -- Forth users are unlikely to spend
money keeping their furnaces running. :-) of course, I guess.]

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, other than myself, is
coincidental.