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From: marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth Programs (was Forth learning curve)
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Date: 30 Dec 89 08:30:07 GMT
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Mitch Bradley writes:
>This "30% of the CPU cycles" number is nonsense.  I wish Forth programmers
>would quit making such unfounded claims about Unix eating cycles.  It makes
>Forth look bad in the Unix community because Unix people think that Forth
>people don't know what they are talking about (which is often true).

You're not running Unix.  You're running SunOS.

I'm running Microport "Real Unix" System V/AT on my '286 box.  It eats
about 30% of the CPU cycles.

By all accounts, the port is very poor.  I call it as I see it, and I
haven't seen it on Sun boxes.

Please don't forget that I worked for Microport.  I am not only a "Forth
people".  I am a "Unix people" too.

-- 
Marc de Groot (KG6KF)         |"...few people know what to do with a computer.
Noe Systems, San Francisco    | They decide that running an operating system
UUCP: uunet!hoptoad!noe!marc  | is a substitute for doing productive work."
Internet: marc@kg6kf.AMPR.ORG | -Chuck Moore