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Date: 18 Jul 90 02:53:33 GMT
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 Date: 07-14-90 (10:14)              Number: 3517 (Echo)
   To: ALL                           Refer#: NONE
 From: IAN WATTERS                     Read: (N/A)
 Subj: HELLO FROM THE UK             Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Hello everyone,

 I asked Ed Cowling of the wonderful Islington BBS in London to take
 this conf and here we are -- hello from the UK!

 I've used Forth for about 7 years now.  On the PC, I use Kelly's
 PC-Forth and F-83 2.1 & am trying to get into Tom Zimmer's F-PC
 (though since I banned Forth from my hard disk machine, that's
 proving difficult given the quantities of source!) and Zen Forth
 (version 1.7 -- was that the one in Dr Dobbs this January?)

 I find Forth to be more useful on my 8-bit machines, an Atari 800 and
 two CP/Ms.  This is because Forth packs so much power into so little
 space.  It's also excellent for controling strange hardware like the
 Atari's graphics and sound chips.  But with all the memory available
 on the PC, environments like Turbo Pascal's are just so much more
 convenient and the code they produce is fast and compact.  So Forth
 has been relegated to helping develop TSRs and learning how to control
 the PC's hardware which is sad.

 Are there any PC Forths that give Turbo a run for its money in speed
 and ease?

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  ~ EZ 1.30 ~ Thanks, Ian
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