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From: ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: LMI Forth(s)
Message-ID: <1409.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 90 23:32:17 GMT
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 Date: 07-25-90 (10:02)              Number: 731 (Echo)
   To: GARY SMITH                    Refer#: 723
 From: RAY DUNCAN                      Read: NO
 Subj: LMI FORTH(S)                  Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Windows uses cooperative rather than preemptive multitasking.  So while
 your application is in control it can have all the CPU cycles it wants,
 for all practical purposes.  The graphics primitives in Windows are very
 well optimized and they are much more sophisticated than in our
 MS-DOS UR/FORTH .

 Windows offers all sorts of interesting graphics operations like
 bit-blitting with stretch or shrink, as well as a variety of fonts in
 all sizes and styles, that would be impractical to implement in the
 normal MS-DOS UR/FORTH.

 As we are currently looking at this, UR/FORTH will create a main or
 "frame" window which will ordinarily be used for drawing by the
 application.  During the development cycle it will also create an
 accessory "interpreter" window where all interactive commands and
 editing will occur; this window will not appear in the final
 application.

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