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Ray Smith wrote: > Dave wrote: >> James Wrote: >> >>> I was thinking more along the lines of machines that ran Forth as their >>> native programming language (the Jupiter Ace?) and so on. >> Wasn't there one called ORIC as well which did Forth? >> >> Regards, >> Dave. > > No the oric was a machine that launched with a better keyboard than the > 48k spectrum, it had hard plastic keys, and a better sound chip. > You could type Zap,Ping,Bang for sound effects. > It really was most popular in France. > > Again Forth was available as a tape option. Forth never really took off > I think because of RPN despite a big push when the Jupiter Ace came out. > It was then that most versions for the home scene started appearing. > > I preferred assembler on the speccy and dabbled a bit with it on the BBC > being heavily into the demo scene and hacking prestel. > > Ray > For those of you using (k)ubuntu there is a version of Forth available on the MOTU repository. Search for gforth. Neil Winchurst -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html