kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) (08/28/85)
I just received the latest (October) issue of ANTIC. I'll submit my usual table of contents shortly but I wanted to share this information with those interested in the 520ST discussion. According to an article in the 520ST section, the Dragon Group has just released a product called 4xFORTH. It's twice as fast as MacForth and it's capable of multi-tasking and multi-user functions. ANTIC will have a full review in the November issue. Looks like ST owners won't have to feel like poor cousins to other 68000 based machines. Kit Kimes AT&T Information Systems Montgomery Works Montgomery, Il. 60538-0305 ..!ihnp4!mgweed!kek
mff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing) (08/29/85)
In article <19978@mgweed.UUCP> kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) writes: >I just received the latest (October) issue of ANTIC. > >According to an article in the 520ST section, the Dragon Group has just >released a product called 4xFORTH. It's twice as fast as MacForth and >it's capable of multi-tasking and multi-user functions. ANTIC will >have a full review in the November issue. Looks like ST owners won't >have to feel like poor cousins to other 68000 based machines. Well, I don't want to get involved in the Amiga-ST wars, but you'll be happy to know that, if true, then the ST has just caught up with the Timex-Sinclair 1000, at least as far as having a multi-tasking Forth is concerned. I doubt if there's a computer on the market that doesn't have one. (Boy, talk about asking for it. No doubt there is, and I'll soon hear about it, ad nauseum) Mark F. Flynn Department of Physics Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 ihnp4!wuphys!mff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark." P. Floyd