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Subject: Atari ValForth
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Date: 6 Jun 90 03:55:10 GMT
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 Date: 06-03-90 (12:42)              Number: 3315 (Echo)
   To: GARY SMITH                    Refer#: NONE
 From: MATT GIWER                      Read: NO
 Subj: ATARI VALFORTH                Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

         Valforth was the best Atari implementation I ran across (and the
 most expensive) but having paid for MVP before it was free it was also a
 very good implementation.  It was improved several times after I made
 the initial investment in Valforth and before it was free so it should
 be most of what anyone would want.
         This is a five year old comment now, but the more interesting
 words of Valforth leading to control of the screen modes, joysticks, PM
 graphics and such were not in any particularly way better or worse than
 the ones I wrote to replace them.  How do we say this right.  They were
 simply implementations for completeness rather than marvels of elegance
 and simplicity that elicites the comment "why didn't I think of that."

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