Re: a Forth disk and Captain Crunch

[Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com>]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 06:09:19 -0700, Jorge ChB wrote
(in article <1hgimxx.vxbv7z1feav0eN%bieling@terra.es>):

> I bought him his "Forth System" in June '79, so it's development surely
> must have started sometime in 1978...
> Also note not any mention to Forth '79: Isn't it that the term "Forth
> 79" was coined later in the fall of 1980 ?

We didn't call it 79 but it was close to what eventually was agreed upon by 
the Standards Team (not associated with FIG). Also, IIRC, it was fairly 
simple to take Ragesdale's FIG Forth and turn it into '79. I used FIG on OSI 
and Rockwell AIM-65 based systems for a long time before '79 was "official."

-- Charlie Springer