Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!ken From: ken@rochester.arpa (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Hello? Message-ID: <645@sol.ARPA> Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 18:07:19 EDT Article-I.D.: sol.645 Posted: Sun Jul 19 18:07:19 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 22:36:08 EDT References: <1392@crash.CTS.COM> <30500001@ccvaxa> Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap) Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 21 |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