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Subject: Forth in the Marketplace
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Date: 27 Feb 91 03:08:42 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 02-24-91 (13:03)              Number: 1302 of 1313 (Echo)
   To: ALL                           Refer#: NONE
 From: JERRY SHIFRIN                   Read: (N/A)
 Subj: HARRIS NEWS                   Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 According to the 2/11/91 issue of EE Times, under the heading:

      Harris shuffles IC sector
      ASIC division axed, 500 face layoffs in reorganization

      "Harris will continue to invest in its Intel 80286 and
      Motorola 6805 lines of CMOS microprocessors, but it will not
      make new investments in its proprietary RTX family of
      real-time controllers. "The base technology [for the RTX] is
      still excellent, but we didn't anticipate the amount of
      software and support tools that we had to develop for the
      processors," [Semiconductor chief Jon] Cornell said.  He
      added that the RTX is "still alive" but would not elaborate.

 I think this amplifies what I've said previously about one of
 Forth's problems being the lack of common tools.  Every Forth
 programmer does not need his/her own unique library of routines
 for strings, arrays, math, graphics, and so on.  I think it's a
 damn shame that Martin Tracy's efforts in this area (the FIG
 Model Library) went so totally unacknowledged and unrewarded!
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