Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Commercial Forth systems Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 90 22:03:34 GMT References: <9008201424.AA05239@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1565.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <1565.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips) writes: > I suspected an answer like this. Now Jax will surely tell us about how > there is a $K billion market for Forth in Embedded Systems and Real-Time > Control. Last I heard he and Peter were differing on that topic, but I > don't recall what, if any, the result was. Real-time control folks have a relatively inelastic demand curve, but the hobbyist market is extremely elastic and there are decent freeware versions available. This basically means there is no significant market for hobbyist level commercial forth systems. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com