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Subject: FORTH and UNIX
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Date: 27 Aug 90 03:30:42 GMT
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Message 34        Sat Aug 25, 1990
D.WALKER31                   at 05:13 EDT
 
Sad to report that I've had to cancel my Forth on Xenix conversion  project at
least for the time being, after a promising start regarding the core image
headers.  My customer wanted a deadline & I couldn't risk the possibility of
putting in all that time and still maybe missing the deadline.

Maybe by the time this becomes a commercial reality again, someone else will
have a native Forth running under SCO UNIX (i.e. not in C)_?

Thank you, Gary, Dennis, Mitch!  It would be interesting to find out if the
Mark Williams *nix has the same system calls to the kernel as SCO I stopped
short of finding out whether Minix does.  Even just more or }

The increased breadth of acceptance of SPARC makes Mitch Bradley's Forth
widgets a potentially very fertile area, particularly since X Windows source
code is available for the cost of a file transfer. I'm not sure I will ever
convert Forth to SCO Unix because the secretiveness I encountered makes it
more attractive to convert X under almost any other operating system.  Given
the falling cost of RAM, it may be even more attractive just to LOAD X
routines dynamically and CALL them from Forth, that is to write a dynamic
runtime interface with C in .OBJ file form.  Has anybody done this or
something similar_? I seem to remember something like it in a Harvard
Softworks ad?

(I know that Sun uses NEWS and not X and that NEWS has advantages, but the
wide acceptance of X and availability of source code seems crucial to me in
retrospect.) S*
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