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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Forth for Sparc and other Unix based computers
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.93Jan1223716@panda.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 22:37:16 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 1 Jan 93 17:55:39 GMT
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- In article <1i20irINNecr@life.ai.mit.edu> mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin) writes:
- >Stephen J Bevan (bevan@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
- >: where am I supposed to get a FREE native code Forth
- >: system for SPARCstations? With so many implementations of other
- >: languages available for free, I have a tough time justifying the
- >: purchase of a Forth system.
-
- There are versions of Forth that are designed to run on any Unix
- workstation. They are written in "C" for portability. For a "free" one,
- try TILE from the GNU collection of programs. Of course you will have
- to spend time instead of money compiling it and getting it to work.
-
- It compiles without a glitch on a SPARC, but it fails the second
- criterion i.e. it isn't a _native_ code FORTH. If you are wondering
- why it has to be native, see the message I was responding to (back on
- the 9th of Dec).
-
-
- For a commercial Forth that runs on SPARCstations, try Sun Forth or
- C Forth from Bradley Forthware, P. O. Box 4444, Mountain View, CA 94040.
- It is similar to the boot prom on SPARCstations (same author) but it
- will do a lot more than just boot or debug your computer.
-
- These fail the second criterion i.e. they aren't _free_ (though I am
- tempted to get one of them for my personal use).
-
- bevan
-