Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!willett!ForthNet From: ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Forth in the Marketplace Message-ID: <2447.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> Date: 4 Mar 91 13:19:47 GMT Organization: (n.) to be organized. But that's not important right now. Lines: 45 Category 2, Topic 11 Message 100 Sat Mar 02, 1991 GARY-S at 06:15 EST I had an interesting walk through a land called nostalgia. I came across an old pile of "Dr. Dobb's Journals". A language called Forth was quite the vogue then. The September 1982 issue was still published by People's Computer Company, but that's a story unto itself. The editor was a fellow named Marlin Ouverson. Some of the products advertised included Armadillo Forth for the Radio Shack Color Computer (Frank Sergeant, know anything about them ?), Lifboat Associates was marketing Mitch Timin's Forth for CP/M (whatever became of Mitch ?) and a couple of 'wanna be' Forth Vendors named Miller Microcomputer Services and Laboratory Microsystems, Inc. By September 1983, Marlin was gone and Reynold Wiggins was the editor. It was still published by People's Computer but the end of their reign was near. By the following September the banner would read M & T Publishing. In that same interim the magazine would no longer profess to be 'For Users of Small Computer Systems' and would proudly announce it was the source of 'Software Tools for Advanced Programmers'. Advertisers in 1983 included HAWG WILD Software selling to the Sinclair market (Timex would soon end my misguided plans ), the appearance of Randy Dumse's New Micros, Inc and the R65F11, and a couple of 'wanna be' Forth vendors, Laboratory Microsystems, Inc. and Miller Microcomputer Services. Vesta was making the scenne in 1985. Also a couple of 'wanna be' vendors called Laboratory Microsystems, Inc. and Miller Microcomputer Services. Besides Vesta Technologies there were a couple of other ROM'd Forths. They apparently were foolish enough to believe there would be a future in embedded systems. By 1986 M & T Publishing had decided the magazine was 'For The Professional Programmer' and the sixth annual Special Forth Issue had a nice article on Binary Trees in 'C'. Some 'wanna be' company called Laboratory Microsystems, Inc. was announcing a couple of Forth products. Vesta Technologies was still trying to push ROM'd Forth. Some people never learn. The pile of old 'Dr. Dobbs Journals' burned rather nicely. ----- This message came from GEnie via willett. You *cannot* reply to the author using e-mail. Please post a follow-up article, or use any instructions the author may have included (USMail addresses, telephone #, etc.). Report problems to: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us _or_ uunet!willett!dwp