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Subject: Re: JForth - Does it exist ??
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Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 07:57:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 11 07:57:52 1987
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/ ui3:comp.sys.amiga / zabot@pompeo.dec.com (Adv.Tech.Mgr-ACT Torino) /  8:27 am  Jan  9, 1987 /

	Last October Kim, Amdahl Corp., reported some info grabbed at BADGE 
	meeting concerning JFORTH, from Delata Research.
	Since then I've called 415-856-3669 (Delta Research recording machine)
	at least a dozen times. I've also written to them. Result: nothing.
	Does anyone has information to share? Another vaporware house?
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...Odd. I spoke night before last to a guy in our PANDA user's group in 
Pullman about his JForth, since I am considering buying it. He reports he
is very happy with the product, especially its speed. (It does have the
ability to decompile, too, either dictionary or ASMBLY.) Also, it has words
to simplify readablility of reverse polish stack notation, as he described it,
but I didn't see any code and don't understand this aspect of it.
   Also, not too long ago I did talk to the folks there. Very cordial, and
eager to talk and supply any information I needed. However, this may be a
"small" organization (I guy...two maybe?) and this could be why the phone
doesn't get answered. People gotta eat and sleep sometime ya know.
   Final note: some people have reported tinges of vaporware behavior from
the UZB Forth people. Does it exist?

---Bob Dickow (...egg-id!ui3!dickow)