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From: liebman@xrxns.UUCP (Chris Liebman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: New Forth standards
Message-ID: <214@xrxns.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 21:12:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: xrxns.214
Posted: Sat Jul 18 21:12:20 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 06:55:34 EDT
References: <1403@crash.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: liebman@xrxns.UUCP (Chris Liebman)
Organization: Xerox Corp. EDDS Leesburg, Va.
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Summary: 32-bit machines and Forth83

In article <1403@crash.CTS.COM> billk@crash.CTS.COM (Bill Kelly) writes:
> I believe, but
>am not sure, that the next standard will leave the existing '83 standard
>pretty much alone.

Gee, I had hoped that they would do somthing to address 32-bit machines.
Only being able to use 16bit values puched on the stack or addresses
sure cripples machines like the mc68020 and probably the vax too..

			-- Chris
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