Re: Apple II ProForth

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article <1126211892.640925.277710@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 "Eric" <englere.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> John B. Matthews wrote:
> > Many years ago, I ported FIG Forth to ProDOS for the Apple-Dayton user
> > group.
> 
> Wow, it's been 19 years already.

Tempus fugit!

> I wasn't into ProDos back then, so I
> didn't use this particular port. But it looks cool - your extensions
> seem like a great idea!

Thank you. Although for sheer ProDOS virtuosity, I think QForth is 
superior. And Mad Apple Forth is prodigious. ProForth is more modest, 
but perhaps more accessible.

> What are you doing now - are you still writing programs?

Gotta code:-)

> I've been involved with a dozen platforms since then, but I still miss
> those early Apple II years when there was a lot of excitement, and you
> could fully understand every single bit of your software and hardware.

And get something like deterministic behavior. Now I reboot and cross my 
fingers:-)

> Somehow we lost our innocence, and the wondor of it all ... my kids
> take computers for granted in this Internet age. They have no desire to
> know how things work under the hood.

> Eric
-- 
John
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