Re: Programming Languages on Apple II

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Paul R. Santa-Maria wrote:

>Ralph Glatt wrote:
>> > Surely there was a FORTH or two for the Apple.
>> There was; I have the book. It required that you
>> had to load Pascal first, though. Does that count?
>
>Details, please?  I have never heard of an Apple II
>Pascal-based FORTH.

Indeed.  It seems like a contradiction in terms, given
the very low-level, threaded implementation that is the
soul of Forth.

Perhaps it only leveraged the file system (!) and the
text editor.  ;-)

>I have two commercial Apple II FORTHs with
>documentation (GraFORTH and METACRAFTS).

And there must be half a dozen less commercial Forths.

-michael

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