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From: rburns@fortune.UUCP (Randyll Burns)
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Subject: forth on a chip
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 11:11:28 EST
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I was just reading an article which appeared yesterday in the SF Chronicle
on Charlie Moore's hardware implementation of Forth. I would be very 
interested in hearing from folks with a deeper knowlege of this project.
I was surprised to hear that they are so far along.
The article says they are shipping evaluation units next week. The prototype 
chip is supposed to benchmark at 10 times the speed of a 68k. Their intention
is to have the chip used in computers with 1/4 the speed of a cray in a few   
years.