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Date: 11 Dec 90 02:57:28 GMT
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Message 68        Sun Dec 09, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 23:10 EST
 
Brad, there are many Forth's to choose from for MS-DOS machines in our
libraries, and many books to get you started.  "Starting Forth" by Leo Brodie
can be found in most computer book stores and is highly recommended.  I'm sure
others can tell you about other books, I just have a hard time remembering
them all.  However, being new to Forth, you should be warned a little about
all the variants on the standards.  The books can only describe some of the
systems and most of our public domain systems here have something or else
added to them that makes learning them more difficult.

If you are into learning electronically, then F-PC is an excellent place to
start.  It has complete source code and uses text files that you are probably
accustomed to.  There are also LESSON files in the library to take you through
an entire tutorial on the system. The only real draw back is how much disk
space the system takes.  A hard disk is highly recommended, but it has more
features than anything else that we have.

Search the library 4 for MSDOS to find all your other choices.

DaR
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