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From: cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: JFORTH FINALLY!
Message-ID: <1176@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 01:29:24 EST
Article-I.D.: vu-vlsi.1176
Posted: Sat Oct 24 01:29:24 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Oct-87 01:28:34 EST
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Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
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Keywords: 2 long months


    Well, well I guess Delta Research still exists.  After 2 long months of
absolutely no response from them I finally to my amazement got my JFORTH.
No I never actually was able to get past their answering machine, so I'm
not sure why I got it.  Well was the patience worth it.  From a brief glance
yes.  The packaging isn't as Professional as Multi-Forth's hard bound binder
but I personally find it easier thumbing through a 8-1/2 x 11 typed manual
than single paging through 6 x 8 type set pages inside a bulky binder.
I was previously under the impression that JFORTH wasn't as expanded as 
Multi-Forth, but that is far from the truth.  It is fully expanded beyond
the standard Amiga library interfacing and includes things like easy window
and menu creating tools so that you don't have to dive into C manuals and the
RKM.  It even includes a utility to aid in converting C source code to FORTH
source code.  The only thing that disappointed me is that I thought they
would have created the optimizing target compiler by now or that I would get
something new.  Instead I only received a February 86 v1.2 software;  must
be working very hard on v1.3.

				Wilson Cheung