[comp.lang.forth] cray

ir230@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (john wavrik) (06/09/91)

>  Category 6,  Topic 17
>  Message 1         Wed Jun 05, 1991
>  ELLIOTT.C                    at 17:04 EDT
                                                                               
>  Recently a ran into a Cray person on another BBS over something in early     
>  music.  He doesn't know of any Forth on a Cray. Well??????? 

During the height of Forth's popularity, a FIG-Forth compatible 
version was reported to be installed all major computer systems --- I 
recall the Cray being mentioned as one.  Usually this meant a core 
based on FIG-Forth with enhancements. These implementations were usually 
written by experts in the particular system and were quite competently 
done. [Forth was once a "hot" language -- considered to be the "wave 
of the future" -- so it was widely implemented by first rate people.] 

Try contacting people who have been in the Cray community for 6+ 
years. I suspect implementations are still around.

                                             John J Wavrik 
        jjwavrik@ucsd.edu                    Dept of Math  C-012 
                                             Univ of Calif - San Diego 
                                             La Jolla, CA  92093