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From: S47852EF@ETSUACAD.BITNET (Frank Earl)
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Subject: Re: Tandy/Radio Shack Forth's
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Date: 8 May 91 23:16:35 GMT
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>OS9/6809?  Is the CoCo one of those?  I think it's the 6809 that's Forth-
>friendly because of 2 h/w stacks.  The last few chapters of Starting Forth are
>harder for concepts than for coding (does that mean anything).  Are you ready
>to try the extensions yourself?  I'm curious; how hard would an assembler be?
>It took teaching myself 8085 m/l to be ready to turn on to Forth.

Yes, the CoCo *IS* a os9/6809 machine!   I was working on a OS9 implementation
of the 83 standard when I needed to tear some of my hardware off to get a PC up
 and running...   :-|

Frank