etrmg@levels.sait.edu.au (10/05/90)
Hey! Can anyone remember two products from the past . . . Jib Ray FORTH And/or Stack Works FORTH ?????????????????????????????????????????? Well, if you do (these are CP/M systems I think, so be careful) give us a little description of them, and let us know where they are today!? I'd be interested to see how these FORTHers have fared the test of time. Since others have come thru the proverbial hell & high water . . . Ronn
cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) (10/05/90)
In article <15490.270b7a4e@levels.sait.edu.au>, etrmg@levels.sait.edu.au writes: > Hey! > > Can anyone remember two products from the past . . . > > Jib Ray FORTH And/or Stack Works FORTH Jib Ray FORTH started out as a z-80 FIG-FORTH. It was extended to be ROM-able and support Muti-tasking & Host FORTH based up/down loader/ Terminal Debugger. Clean implementation of all this functionality and save ROM image to disk file attributes made this a pleasure to work with. I personally supervised a Team that created a 8 task 48k ROM Z-80 System back in 1983. This thing ran a DMA, prescaler HW counter bank, 48 pin i/o platform sensor/controller and a second "live" serial Field Debugger Port. I Taught one SW & one HW engineer to code and test for me and produced product in record time/cost. Became Engineering Manager in the Process. By 1984-5 we bought the PC version and experienced transparent host shift. Great product, $500-1000 Range but anyone could have made it. I just wanted to help the pioneer and save time. Clyde
jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr) (10/06/90)
etrmg@levels.sait.edu.au writes: >Hey! >Can anyone remember two products from the past . . . >Jib Ray FORTH And/or Stack Works FORTH Yeah, the handout I have from the 1986 Forth Interest Group Conventions (remember FIG Conventions?) gives the contact party as: David L. Jaffee 100 N. Whisman #173 Mountain View, CA 94043 (415) 962-6548 and claims support for: 8080, 8085, Z80, NSC800, 80x86, CP/M, MP/M and MS-DOS. <jax@well.{UUCP,sf.ca.us} >< Member, > /// ///\\\ \\\ /// <well!jax@lll-winken.arpa >< X3J14 TC > /// /// \\\ \\\/// <JAX on GEnie >< for ANS > \\\ /// ///====\\\ ///\\\ <SYSOP RCFB (303) 278-0364>< Forth > \\\/// /// \\\ /// \\\