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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 85 08:43:51 PDT
From: bmcg!asgb!benish!asgb!gollem!hageman@SDCSVAX.ARPA

    I have reciently gotten into FORTH via a CPM System called
    FORTH-83 written by Henry Laxen and Mike Perry which I got
    from the lakewood RCCPM in Colorado.  This system comes with
    all of the source screens and is available in CPM80, CPM68,
    and MS-DOS versions.  The system seems very well put togeather
    and features such things as a background mode for tasks,
    shadow screens for easy documentation of programs, and clear
    documentation on the existing sytem.

    I've been happily reading Brodie's book "Starting
    FORTH" and a book called "Mastering Forth" by Martin
    Tracy  (This book is an update of "FORTH Tools").
    I have found that both books, read in that
    order are, extremely helpfull.   I have been using FORTH
    in my continuing studies of digital control of processes
    and  of digital control techniques.  I feel it is a
    superior language in these studies since it makes
    it so easy to quickly change any part of a program and continue on.
    It is fast and I don't have to wait for a compile/assembly/link
    operation to discover that my line of reasoning was again close
    but no banana.

    I do have a question about META processing.  The FORTH-83 system
    comes with a META processor and complete assembler for each of
    the 8080, 68000 and the 8088 but I do not know how to use it
    to produce an executeable file.  It would be neet to be able
    to produce a reduced size object of a control system once I have
    completed the development.  Could you point me to a reasonable
    text on the subject?

    Thanks for starting and keeping up with this news letter and
    for any information you might be able to send in my direction.

George Hageman ( .. bmcb!asgb!gollem!hageman )



Date: Tue, 17 Sep 85 09:53:04 PDT
From: bmcg!asgb!benish!asgb!gollem!hageman@sdcsvax.arpa

Hi,
    I just wanted to let you know that my questions regarding a
    difinitive text on the FORTH-83 META processor have been
    answered.  I bought a book named "INSIDE F83" by C. H. Ting Phd.
    from Mountain View Press which answers all of the questions
    I had on the subject.  I highly recommend this text.

George Hageman  ( ... bmcg!asgb!gollem!hageman )
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