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Subject: Re: ForthMacs
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Re: ForthMacs

Just my two cents: ForthMacs is worth every penny of it's price. We're
doing lots of pretty complicated work with it (at least for me it's
pretty complicated) like real-time experimentation (psychological
investigations) using interrupt-driven timers, switching between
different screens and checking for responses by our subjects. We used
the floating point package and implemented matrix algebra as far as
needed, and so on (of course we don't have any ram-disks in our 1040s,
because we need all the space for programs and data, so I don't know
about that being a problem). I heard about problems concerning blitter
TOS and MEGAs, but Mitch is working on it.
Sure, the docs are just about explaining syntax and semantics of the
system, but with a good book on FORTH that's all you need.

May the FORTH be with you,
Klaus.


Klaus Hahn                             Bitnet: HAHN_K@DMRHRZ11

Department of Psychology
Gutenbergstr. 18
University of MARBURG
D-3550 Marburg

West-Germany