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Subject: for us beginners?  Help
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Date: 25 Jul 90 03:01:25 GMT
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 Date: 07-23-90 (06:36)              Number: 3550 (Echo)
   To: CINDY BARTORILLO              Refer#: 3548
 From: STEVE PALINCSAR                 Read: NO
 Subj: HELP FOR BEGINNER             Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 You don't have to give up "programming down to the bare metal" if you 
 use a forth that runs on top of DOS -- and you certainly don't have to 
 give it up for the sake of forth standards.  I use HS/Forth, which makes
 full use of both DOS & BIOS calls.  Should you wish to write to disks 
 directly (that is, without using DOS file functions) there's a short 
 extension file to load that lets you do it.  And you can always write 
 directly to specific memory locations, ports, etc.  Fact is, if you know
 how to do it with assembler, you can write a forth word to do it... and 
 then build bigger forth words on top of that to use it.
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