On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:26:57 GMT, Scott Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Speaking of Forth... > was making the point it would be good for general purpose. I suspect > that it would quickly run up against memory limitations and would go > no faster than the machine driving the memory market (with a possible > last gasp when Rambus came online).
I dunno. Here in the UK there was a small home computer called (I think) the Oric(*) which had a membrane keyboard, 4K or RAM and ran Forth.It had a small cult following before dying out. It looked a bit like the early Sinclair/Timex ZX81 and I think the developers came from that stable. (*)I suspect the name was a dedication to a populat SciFi series of the time, Blake's 7, which had a computer called Orac... Alan G. Author of the Learn to Program website http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
