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umn-cs!smith    Jan 17 14:37:00 1983

  FIG Forth, Forth 79, and Forth 82 are more similar than they are
different.  I haven't seen all of Forth 82, but what I did see didn't
look like an "extension" of Forth.  The standardization thrust seems
mostly to involve renaming the same old Forth words, depending on
whose favorite mnemonic is deemed most common.

   I suspect that Forth 79 will remain the de-facto standard.  It appeared
just as a whole ream of companies were ready to put out Forth packages,
so they all threw in the extra effort to run Forth 79.  More important,
perhaps, is that Brodie used it in his book, "Starting Forth", which is
probably the most readable Forth tutorial there is.

Rick.