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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: F83 for "PS/2" systems
Summary: PD Forth and Commercial Forth
Keywords: f83,lmi,urforth
Message-ID: <10695@well.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 02:31:51 GMT
References: <17931@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <17931@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> olson@helios.tn.cornell.edu writes:
>
>Hi
>A friend recently acquired an IBM "PS/2" system, currently running MS-DOS.
>He asked me about how he would go about writing himself a simple graphics game.
>It ocurred to me that Forth might be a good language to introduce him to.

	Todd, if your box *really* runs MSDOS, the public domain implementation
by Henry Laxen and Mike Perry of the Forth-83 Standard known as  F83  should
work just ducky. It is available on many BBSes, including mine, number below.

	Commercially, the first vendor to really get hot on PS/2 and OS/2
is Laboratory Microsystems, Inc. ( LMI ) whose UR-FORTH comes in DOS and
OS/2 versions. Great for upward compatability of source, a little pricey,
but have you checked out the price of a C compiler these days? :-)

	LMI's BBS is (206) 306-3530.

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