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Subject: Category 2,  Topic 8
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Date: 5 Jan 90 01:27:00 GMT
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Category 2,  Topic 8
Message 29        Fri Dec 22, 1989
R.BERKEY [Robert]            at 05:35 PST

To: Silver, Rutgers University

  >I go into cold sweats thinking about playing directly with the
  >underlying machine's guts, do you Forthers not have terrible
  >problems switching between architectures?

Once you've banged some bits you may wonder what you were worried about. 
Seriously, what's the worst that can possibly happen?  For most people that's
erase the hard disk, and that's a risk taken all of the time anyway.  For my
AT, life got easier when I added a reset switch, and a control-break driver
that makes maximum attempt to bring the interpreter back to life.  As for
switching architectures, it's not something that's occurred to me to be a
problem.  Maybe it's like that those fluent in both Spanish and English can
think and dream in either one.

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