AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (01/09/89)
>Date: Thu, 5 Jan 89 04:54:50 GMT >From: David Douthitt <astroatc!nicmad!madnix!rat@SPEEDY.CS.WISC.EDU> >Subject: Re: Re: Apple II Future > >In article <3954@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes: >| Anyway, someday I'll have to write the multitasking OS for the //e >| and prove everybody wrong:-) > >I hate to disappoint you, but a multitasking OS has been out for the 6502 >and innumerable other "crippled" processors: it's called Forth. That doesn't seem to be a very enlightening statement. Forth is a language, not necessarily an operating system (consider GSForth running under GS/OS, for example), and I don't see how Forth is inherently multitasking. By the way, Forth is a neat language on _any_ machine, whether you consider its processor "crippled" or not. [That doesn't mean I recommend doing all your programming in it, but it does have some really neat principles in its design.] --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons