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From: kaz@cadovax.UUCP (Kerry Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth Popularity
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Date: 31 Dec 89 04:32:32 GMT
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In article <1JYB.5PZ.ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> 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>.

What applications were written for the Jupiter and Sinclair?  I have
no idea, but if there was not a great deal of available software,
these computers would have failed regardless of the language available.

Didn't these computers have a Chicklet keyboard?  Another reason they
may have failed.

Kerry Zimmerman
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