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In Article 34 of comp.lang.forth.mac rotberg@dms.UUCP (Ed Rotberg) says:

> MacForth (Creative Solutions) is a commercial Forth product, as is Mach II
> Forth from Palo Alto Shipping.  I have used both, but not for some time now,
> and I really can't vouch for the state of their current compatability with
> recent Mac systems.  MacForth is a more traditional Forth environment, but
> Mach II had some really nifty features like named parameter input, and standard
> text file sourse instead of Forth Blocks.  It was also, as I recall, a lot
> cheaper than MacForth, and had excellent support.

I am happly using MacForth with no troubles on a Mac IIci so I think they've
done a good job keeping up with Apple.  The MacForth development environment
is also considerably improved from it earliest release.  Source code in kept
in normal files, the built-in editor can handle multiple open files, and
interactive sessions can be run from an editor window thus providing a built
in session history and other handy stuff.  

I haven't had occasion to use Creative Solutions support but they do have a
Compuserve group and they're local for me.  Also the owner (I think)  of 
the company, Don Colbourn, is an active participant on ANSI Forth Committee
and IMHO is a real smart guy that built a solid product.

	Marty Fraeman

	mef@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu
	301-953-5000, x8360

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	Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory
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P.S. Hi Ed! How are things? you gunky-)