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From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: PolyFORTH installation/troubleshooting
Keywords: help, no memory, poor code
Message-ID: <25417@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 13 Jun 91 06:14:47 GMT
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lm03_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Larry Moss) writes:

>I'm a novice forth user and I'm running into some difficulty with
>PolyFORTH running on an AST 286 machine with a TMS320c25 DSP board in
>it.  Hopefully someone reading this has a similar system and can be more
>helpful than FORTH Inc.'s tech support.  Alternatively, if you know of
>another FORTH system that will work with a DSP board (preferably, but not
>necessarily the one mentioned above) I'd be interested in hearing about
>that too.

	MicroK Systems here in Colorado has a DSP16 Forth (AT&T) and
C compiler. MicroK's BBS number is (303) 278-0364.

>  I'm not incredibly pleased with PolyFORTH or the people on the
>phone.

	Ummm .. after posting this I get the *feeling* you are going
to hear from them real soon! (They read this.) 

	It's always hard in the Forth industry to provide the customer
support at the level people need at the prices they are willing to pay.
My firm, Vesta Technology of Denver, CO, sells dirt-cheap single board
computers with embedded Forth, and customers call us up and expect us
to teach them Forth over the phone!

	So don't be *too* hard on the service reps of that Forth
institution that we all lovingly call "FInc." They get paid for teaching
Forth, that's part of how they stay in business. Their systems are
everywhere, and they've been doing it longer than anyone else ... I'm
sure they'll get in touch with you and straigten this all out.

	Good luck with your project, and keep us all posted on how
it works out!

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