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From: pierson@mist (Dan Pierson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: F83
Keywords: here, comes, andother, Forth, programmer
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Date: 8 Nov 88 18:35:19 GMT
References: <1988Nov6.214143.26534@cs.rochester.edu> <7590@well.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)

In article <1988Nov6.214143.26534@cs.rochester.edu> marsh writes:
>I am looking for F83 by Laxen and Perry, a public domain
>implementation of Forth. This implementation is mentioned in Forth
>Dimensions.  I need a version for the IBM PC.  Can you help?  

You can get something like three versions of it by anonymous ftp from:

    simtel20.army.mil
    cd pd1:<msdos.forth>
    
The versions are:

    F83A.ARC.1              	    original?
    F83B.ARC.1

    F83V2-MS.ARC.1  	    	    new version?
    
    F8388.ARC.1                     F88, Tom Zimmer's larger version
    F8388DC.ARC.1		    includes:
    F8388HP.ARC.1		    	Direct threaded
    F8388RME.ARC.1			Separated lists & heads
    F8388XTR.ARC.1			DOS command and file system access
    F88COLOR.ARC.1			Sequential file based
					Prefix or postfix assembler syntax

Also in that directory are:

    BBL_A.ARC.1	       	    	    ???
    BBL_B.ARC.1

    FBBS2.ARC.1	    	    	    

    FIFTH.ARC.1	    	    	    Freeware, tree-structured "modules"
				    replace words and vocabularies    	    

    FIG86.ARC.1

    FORTHED.ARC.1

    UNIFORTH.ARC.1