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From: mikec@cbmvax.UUCP (Mike Colligon QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DELTA RESEARCH?
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Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 11:11:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 11:11:45 1987
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In article <1126@vu-vlsi.UUCP> cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung) writes:
>I've had J-FORTH back ordered from Go Amigo for over a week.  They
>claim that they have been trying to get into contact with the
>manufacturer Delta Research for over a week with no success.  Anyone
>know if the company still exists? 

Sorry, can't help you here.

>I really like what I've heard about their product compared to 
>Multi-FORTH, but I am now becoming a bit unsure about the whole thing.
>Does anyone know about the current status of the latest versions of 
>both FORTHs?  How do they stack up against each other in say ease of
>making windows and menus?

I am not very familiar with FORTH (Multi-FORTH is my first attept with the 
language) but I have taked to people who seem to know what they are taking
about, and this is why I have Multi-FORTH.  J-FORTH is JSR threaded, whereas
Multi-FORTH is tokenized.  J-FORTH produces larger code, but is slightly
faster.  The J-FORTH documentation is reported to be not very useful; I read
the Multi-FORTH manual and then started writing little programs.  YES, I read
the documentation FIRST. :-)  J-FORTH has not been set up for Amiga specific
activities (opening windows, menus, etc.).  Multi-FORTH has routines to open
windows and do other Amiga things for you.  The latest version 1.21, I believe,
is reported to support all Amiga activities, all of the Amiga Includes,
multitasking within applications, and spawning of tasks.  (I guess I should
send in for my upgrade to 1.21.)  From what I have been told, J-FORTH does not
support any of these things, but you can do them if you want to hack at it.

>			Wilson Cheung
>		        Have lots of hardware but still no language.


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