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Forth-83 is on Simtel-20 in  MICRO:<CPM.FORTH-83>

I don't know how to get an up-to-date list of accessible
stuff; I have saved some of the Simtel-20 lists that have been
posted to the USENET in the past, but they aren't complete, as
witnessed by the lack of mention of the FORTH-83 stuff (which I
know about from a specific announcement about Forth-83).

BTW, a new release of Forth-83 is out as of last month.  There
are a few changes from the release on Simtel-20, but nothing
earth-shaking.  (I have this from the "horse's mouth".  The author
of Forth-83 is a friend of mine).

Forth-83 seems to be catching on.  There is a book out now that
describes it - Forth Tools, by Anita Anderson and Martin Tracy.

A few months ago, I converted all of my Forth code from Forth-79
to Forth-83.  It was really easy; almost all of the necessary changes
involved subtracting 1 from an argument to PICK, looking for
ticks's ( ' ) and either deleting a following "CFA" or adding ">BODY"
as the situation demanded, and changing "NOT" to "0=".  I don't claim
that this is all that has to change in every situation, but these three
changes take care of the lion's share of the differences.

I am very happy with F83.  I found the 79-standard to be quite annoying
when I attempted to do real work with it, but I'm having a much better
time with the 83-standard.

Name-droppingly yours,
Mitch Bradley