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From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: : Forth in C
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.163922.5218@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 16:39:22 GMT
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In article <9104191330.AA16232@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM writes:
> > I use the Sun SPARC station 2 and Sun-3/160 (68000) machines both run UNIX
> > systems. And there are 3 versions of FORTH on them.
> >
> >    Sun Forth - written by Mitch Bradley (68000)
> >    PolyForth - written by Forth Inc.    (68000)
> >    OPEN BOOT PROM - written by Sun Microsystem, Inc. (SPARC)
> 
> More precisely, Open Boot PROM was written by Mitch Bradley who happens
> to work for Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Several people helped me, but at least
> in the early days, I wrote most of the code.
> 
> There is also a "Sun Forth" for SPARC.  99% of the source code is identical
> among the 680x0 and SPARC versions of "Sun Forth" and Open Boot.  The same
> source code is extended in the direction of a Unix application to form Sun
> Forth, and in the direction of a firmware boot/debug monitor to form Open
> Boot PROM.
>
Mitch,
	Most of the SUN specific magazines are now touting 
"embedded Sparc". It seems that you would have a decent window to
exploit your expertize and perhaps supplement your income
with an embedded FORTH development system, no?

Clyde