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From: web@garnet.berkeley.edu (William Baxter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Forth for VAX, Sun
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Date: 5 May 89 22:47:01 GMT
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To my inquiry about Forth systems for the VAX and Sun, I received two
responses, both mentioning the same programs.  

C Forth 83: 

Runs on both VAX (VMS or Unix) and Sun, and in fact on just about every
computer with a half decent C compiler.  The price is $50, which gets
you C kernel source, Forth utilities source, on-line documentation, and
a printed glossary.  It's a Forth-83 dialect with 32-bit stacks, real
files, and several utilities.

Sun Forth:

Runs on any Sun 2, Sun 3, or Sun 4, and also on most non-Sun 680x0 Unix
machines.  The price is $200, which gets you the binary, source code,
metacompiler, 200+ page printed manual, and a ton of utilities (for
instance, it can load C object files into the Forth dictionary and
execute the C subroutines as Forth words.  It also has a disassembler
and both high level and assembly language debugging tools.)


Both are available from:

Mitch Bradley
Bradley Forthware
P.O. Box 4444
Mountain View, CA 94040

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Disclaimer:  Endorsement?  I haven't even used them.

William Baxter

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