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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth Popularity
Message-ID: <1JYB.5PZ.ggpc2@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 28 Dec 89 21:07:23 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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> A cheap Forth computer can do an end run around this attitude and I
> think the world will better for it.

It's been done. The Jupiter Ace, a Sinclair ZX-somethingorother with Forth
instead of Basic. It was under $100. It went nowhere.
-- 
`-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>.
 'U`  Also <peter@ficc.lonestar.org> or <peter@sugar.lonestar.org>.
"It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier
and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com