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Subject: Forth Engines / Harris
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Date: 7 Dec 90 02:11:34 GMT
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 Date: 12-03-90 (21:05)              Number: 369 of 380
   To: FRANK SERGEANT                Refer#: 341
 From: DENNIS MCCUNNEY                 Read: NO
 Subj: FORTH ENGINES / HARRIS        Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 FS3 Treat it almost like the hex  inverter chips they still make and
 FS3 sell.  What an opportunity existed.   The window is almost
 FS3 closed, but there is still a crack.  They don't  have to support
 FS3 it.  $15 in ones and no support - the Forth community  will
 FS3 support it.  Grass roots and all that.

     Er, how large do you perceive the Forth community to be?  The
 difficulty with semiconductor technology is the up-front cost:
 designing, debugging, and tooling up for production.  Actually *making*
 one more isn't that expensive on an incremental cost basis, but adding
 in the amortisation of the up-front cost changes the numbers *very*
 quickly.  It worked for the 6502 because millions of them wound up in
 low-end Apple, Atari, and Commodore machines.  I can't really see that
 happening with the Harris chip.

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