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From: ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies)
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Date: 13 Mar 88 16:20:27 GMT
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In article <408@paisley.ac.uk> csm@uk.ac.paisley.cs (Stuart C Malcolm) writes:

>  ... I recently heard of a forth chip that executes forth at
>5 mips (!@#$) Does anyone have any info ? or was i just dreaming.

The NOVIX chip is reportedly capable of 8-10 MIPS (there are several
configurations).

NOVIX  (1985 address)
10590 N Tantau Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014

Chuck Moore has a company called "Computer Cowboys" (I think) that sells
another VSLI Forth board since he left NOVIX. Anyone have any info?

Also, Allan Winfield (author of "The Complete Forth", Wiley) developed
a bit-slice Forth engine, a C written in Forth, etc. As of a couple of
years ago he was at the University of Hull, UK.

Dick Pountain, Byte UK editor in London, would be a good source of info
about Forth. (He recently wrote a book on object-oriented extensions for
Forth). His address (from Byte):

Dick Pountain
c/o BYTE
One Phoenix Mill Lane
Peterborough, NH 03458 USA

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Nicholas Spies			ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa
Center for Design of Educational Computing
Carnegie Mellon University