Re: Speculation on ARM licensed by DRAM companies
- To: "Robert J. Brown" <rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Speculation on ARM licensed by DRAM companies
- From: Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 07:56:17 +0200 (MET DST)
- Cc: jax@xxxxxxxx, Eugene.Leitl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, WMOR1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, misc, jrible@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-Reply-To: <199707212245.RAA32472@eli.wariat.org>
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Robert J. Brown wrote:
> Jack> Out in the wide world, Forth has vanished with hardly
> Jack> a ripple. It comforts me that some of the 30-somethings with
> Jack> whom I work have *heard* of Forth; rare are the
> Jack> 20-somethings who have.
>
> Tell them to hit "STOP-A" on their Sun workstations and have at it! :->
Forth is out there, look at UPS' stylus+scanner gadget. It is just
invisible to the mainstream. Even in the embedded market most companies
haven't heard of Forth (I have shoehorned a C application into a 68HC11
derivate, a problem which had never arisen in Forth).
'gene
> (With thanks to Mitch Brady for making Forth the most wideley deployed
> language shipped in the ROM of a desktop machine.)
Whatever happened to PCI OpenBoot?
>
