[comp.lang.forth] PD Forth for the PC?

bander@wam.umd.edu (Nicholas Andrew Vargish) (08/07/90)

Greetings and salutations!

When I was in high school (ugh!), I got tired of Pascal and looked around
for a new language to learn.  I think I picked Forth more out of a sense
of contrariness than anything else.  I *loved* it!  Unfortunately, my
teacher refused to accept Forth projects and I only did a little work
on my own with Forth after that.

Now I'd like to get back to Forth.  Could someone direct me to a place where
I could find a PD Forth for the PC?  Preferably through anonymous ftp?

Thanks,

Nick Vargish
bander @ cscwam.umd.edu 

dwp@willett.UUCP (Doug Philips) (08/07/90)

In <1990Aug6.212016.8311@wam.umd.edu>, bander@wam.umd.edu (Nicholas Andrew Vargish) writes:

> Now I'd like to get back to Forth.  Could someone direct me to a place where
> I could find a PD Forth for the PC?  Preferably through anonymous ftp?

There is also the ubiquitous WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL.

Thomas Rolf's has a OnLine Information Service (OLIS) for Forth
information.  It contains among other things, files which describe
what ForthNet is, and how to access SIMTEL20.  There is another
anonymous FTP site that keeps a mirror-image copy of the files on SIMTEL20,
but I can't recall its name right now.

Anyway, OLIS is temporarily down for improvements.  In the meantime,
if you would like either of the two aforementioned files, drop me a note
at one of the addresses below and I'll email you one.

-Doug

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janh@hplsla.HP.COM (Jan Hofland) (08/07/90)

Try the East Coast Forth Board BBS at (703) 442 8695.

Jan Hofland