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From: jims@momenta (Jim Straus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Atari Portfolio developer prices
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.231536.21049@momenta>
Date: 19 Dec 90 23:15:36 GMT
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Organization: Momenta Corporation
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borasky@ogicse.ogi.edu (M. Edward Borasky) writes:

>Is it possible to get Laxen-Perry FORTH into a PORTFOLIO?  That way,
>the PORTFOLIO could be used as a STAND-ALONE development system; you
>wouldn't NEED anything else!  You'd still need the hardware reference
>manuals, of course, but you could develop anywhere -- in a plane, a
>rest room in a shopping mall, in the car while your wife is driving --
>ANYWHERE!

I'm not sure about Laxen-Perry Forth, but I've put a variant of a Forth
for the HP Portable into the Portfolio.  It is small enough to allow me
to jump into the Editor to create programs and then load the files into
the Forth.  I have done development while flying.  The biggest problem
is accidentally crashing the machine with bad code.  Care is required to
make sure that the write-protect switch is set before trying out any
changes to a program.