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From: ken@rochester.arpa (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: Hello?
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Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 18:07:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 19 18:07:19 1987
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Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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|Particularly if anybody can tell me anything
|about the NOVIX chip...

Disclaimer: I am not a Forth user although I have a liking for
"strange" languages that make me think about algorithms in a different
way. Besides Forth, my list includes APL, Prolog, Icon, and Lisp. (Of
course I use garden variety languages too.)

My recollections may therefore be incorrect so take this with a grain
of salt. I took a look at the vendor displays at the recent Forth
conference in Rochester. The Novix chip was there and being used by an
OEM, so it's real. You can buy a starter kit (connect a terminal and
you're off and running) for $495. It currently runs at 10M
instruction/sec. The techie I talked to said that is *at least* 10
million Forth primitives per second. Presumably this means the internal
clock rate is higher.  Faster chips (16M?) are projected.

Sorry, all my brochures are at the office so I have no addresses.  If I
got any of this wrong and you know better, please correct me.

	Ken