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From: rfl@oddjob.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: INFO wanted on Novix Forth Engine
Message-ID: <3720@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 21:09:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 21:09:21 1987
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Organization: U of Chicago - Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Summary: We have one


We have had a gamma (now beta, I believe) board for over a year now.
We have been slow to really do much with it since the processor plays
the role of the terminal UART. This means that every character we
download from our macintosh (where we store the Forth source code) is
echoed back and the next character sent is missed by the Novix. We
could, of course, write a program in the mac to take care of this, or
we could add a UART, but then would have to modify the input words.
Anyway, we now have a student taking charge of the board and we hope
some progress is made. The board cost about $600 as I remember.