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From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth in the Marketplace
Summary: The SUN may rise...
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.134456.1362@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 13:44:56 GMT
References: <1756.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1756.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>, ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
> 
>  To really get a Forth PC off the ground would require a well-established
>  backer, if nothing else for the prestige. I think the days of Apple
>  Computers built in a garage being successful are over.
> 
>  Either that or someone with a big dream and a lot of patiece. I'd even
>  consider doing it except I don't have the technical expertise to design
>  such a thing.
> 
>  What do you think? Anybody want to approach IBM about the idea?

WHat about SUN? They have FORTH in rom on their mother boards I beleive,
And I know they use it for bring-up testing, S_BUS autoconfig and
in Other areas.

Clyde