clark@randvax.ARPA (John Clark) (04/06/84)
Has anyone had any actual experience with MacForth? I recently glanced at
a brochure for such a product, marketed by "Creative Technologies Inc." or
some such.
Given the present dearth of programming languages for the Mac, meaningful
replies are probably worth posting to appropriate newsgroup(s) on the net.
I suspect many present or potential Mac owners would be interested...
John Clark
clark@rand-unix
{decvax, vortex}!randvax!clarkwmb@sun.uucp (Mitch Bradley) (04/11/84)
Actually, MacForth is from "Creative Solutions" instead of "Creative Technologies". Creative Solutions is headed by Don Colburn, who is very well respected in the FORTH community. His 68000 FORTH is called MultiFORTH. It has been ported to a large number of 68000 machines in the past few years, and is in use by an impressive group of large companies. MultiFORTH is quite mature and well-supported.For these reasons, I have every reason to believe that MacForth will be (is?) an excellent product. No, I have nothing to do with Creative Solutions myself. Mitch Bradley Sun Microsystems, Inc.
delph@tesla.UUCP (Robert Del Favero) (04/11/84)
According to the people selling MacForth at the West Coast Computer Faire
(weekend around March 22), this is indeed the same 68000 Forth that
has been on the market and well-thought-of for some time. They were selling
a basic system for ~$150 which should have started shipping this week, and
a "developer's system" for substantially more that should ship in about
four to six weeks. I'm not sure of any more detail than that, but I could
dig up the info I got at the Faire or post their address if there is enough
interest.
Robert Del Favero Jr.
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