wmb@ENG.SUN.COM (04/09/91)
> To Mitch Bradley : > Are you connected with Sun of the Sparcstations Yes. I am a full-time Sun employee, and I developed the Forth-based Open Boot PROM firmware that is in every SPARCstation. I also have a "garage company" called Bradley Forthware (P.O. Box 4444, Mountain View, CA 94040). > if so can you tell me what Forths are available , free, cheap, or > standard software pricing ? I know of four Forth's that run on Suns, in increasing order of price: a) Open Boot PROM - built-in to the SPARCstation PROMs. Inaccessible from the Unix environment; you have to interrupt the boot process and then type "n" to get to Forth. b) TILE - shareware, $50 suggested contribution to Mikael Patel. Written in C, runs on Suns. Available from the net, but I'm not sure how to get to it from your site. Maybe somebody else knows. c) C Forth 83 - $75 from Bradley Forthware. Written in C, runs on several machines. Tape or floppy. d) Sun Forth - $200 from Bradley Forthware. Written in metacompiled Forth/assembler. Unix version of the Forth in the SPARCstation PROMs, with extensions. Tape or floppy. Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM