Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ucdavis!egg-id!ui3!dickow From: dickow@ui3.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: JForth - Does it exist ?? Message-ID: <620010@ui3.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 07:57:52 EST Article-I.D.: ui3.620010 Posted: Sun Jan 11 07:57:52 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 18:51:59 EST References: <7446@decwrl.DEC.COM> Organization: MRC, University of Idaho Lines: 23 / 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? ---------- ...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)