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Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Selecting a Public Domain Kernel
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Date: 1 Jul 90 03:15:13 GMT
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 Date: 06-28-90 (11:24)              Number: 683 (Echo)
   To: ALL                           Refer#: NONE
 From: TOM PRUETT                      Read: HAS REPLIES
 Subj: SEEKING RECOMMENDATIONS-      Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 We are considering using Forth for program development on the 6303Y.
 I learned Forth on a commodore computer several years ago, but I have
 never used it in an embedded system. The other people in my group are
 familiar with C, and are new to Forth. They are willing to 
 objectively consider each one. Our objective is to get our product
 to market ASAP. We have the following questions:

 A.) What is the relative development time for a moderately large
     program written in C, Forth, and Assembly? A similar product of
     ours, written in assembly, requires 40K ROM and 8K RAM.

 B.) What is the relative performance of programs written in C, Forth
     and assembly?

 C.) How do RAM requirements (minimum stack space, etc...) compare
     for these languages?

 D.) What opinions are there about the LMI products?

 I would appreciate any comments that anyone might have.
 We have to make a decision soon. Please leave a message for me on this
 BBS. I appreciate the hospitality of LMI in letting me log onto their
 system. Thanks!

 NET/Mail : LMI Forth Board, Los Angeles, CA (213) 306-3530             
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