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Subject: mach 2 forth
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Date: Sat, 7-Feb-87 00:06:20 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  7 00:06:20 1987
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A while ago (about 10 weeks ago) I promised to post a review to this
net concerning MACH 2 FORTH, a forth development system for the Atari ST,
produced by Palo Alto Shipping Co.. Well, events have sort of made my task
fairly easy: PASC has stopped supporting their GEM forth product. The one
person who was their support man for GEM on the ST simply left. Too bad, because
the product was (is) very good. Actually, the language system is excellent,
including complete hooks into the OS. The editor, however, is very poor.

From what the guy said over the phone, PASC is planning on introducing a Forth
system bundled to OS9 (by Microware, I believe) for the ST. I have no doubt that
the quality of the software will be high. However, the price will also be high,
especially after adding in the price of OS9. And I cannot help wondering just
how long it will be supported. PASC appears to be quite understaffed
(overextended?).

Sigh! I guess I will have to buy one of those expensive C compilers sometime
soon.

-- Patrick Simon   2-7-87    PSIMON%PPC.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA

disclaimer: I am associated with none of the corporations mentioned above,
except that I was once a customer of Palo Alto Shipping Co.