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Subject: Forth in the Marketplace
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Date: 8 Jan 91 02:29:33 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 01-04-91 (19:11)              Number: 772 of 783
   To: MITCH BRADLEY                 Refer#: NONE
 From: IAN WATTERS                     Read: NO
 Subj: FORTH IN THE MARKETPLACE      Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
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 GS] ^ This "embedded system" is not small in the traditional sense, in that
   ] ^ the code runs on a 28 MIPS processor and occupies about 128K of ROM

 Cough!  Gasp!  Wasn't it C. Moore who said if it couldn't be done in 16K it
 wasn't worth doing?

   ] ^ but it is very constrained; we have had to use numerous shrinking
   ] ^ techniques to make the needed functions fit in the available space.

 Apart from using colon defintions  :-)  any examples?

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