[Coco] Another FORTH

[Kandur]

Here is an FHL newsletter, with Charles E. Eaker writing about his eFORTH.
http://os9projects.com/CD_Archive/PRODUCTS/FHL/SoftNews_N01.pdf 

Kandur

Sunday, January 4, 2015, 1:45:03 PM, you wrote:

> Actually, I found the PDF manual to Forth09 and that's by D.P.Johnson. There
> was also an implementation of Forth09 done by someone in the OS9UG as I have source set in "C"  for that.
> I don't remember "eForth" being advertised by Frank Hogg, but I missed a lot
> of later Rainbow issues too. I also wasn't interested in Forth so I wasn't
> looking for it and could have every well overlooked it.
>  

> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>  

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
> To: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>; CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jan 4, 2015 4:24 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Another FORTH


> It was called eFORTH
> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=473 

> Kandur

> Sunday, January 4, 2015, 1:07:29 PM, you wrote:

>> Yes, the one by Frank Hogg you refer to is Forth09 isn't it? Or was that by Microware?
>>  

>> Bill Pierce
>> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>>  

>> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
>> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
>> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
>> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com


>>  
>>  
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sun, Jan 4, 2015 3:44 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Another FORTH


>> Thinking Forth, By Leo Brodie
>> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=473

>> Kandur

>> Sunday, January 4, 2015, 10:45:08 AM, you wrote:
>>> Actually Charles E. Eaker wrote eFORTH for the Color Computer,
>>> distributed by Frank Hogg Laboratory in Syracuse.

>>> Kandur

>>> Sunday, January 4, 2015, 9:03:59 AM, you wrote:
>>>> Along with  Willard Goosey in 2005, I'm asking,
>>>> "Frank Hogg had a FORTH system... 
>>>> I know he dumped all his old FLEX stuff into the PD, what about his coco 
>> stuff?"
>>>> I paid good money for Frank's FORTH for the Coco. It was worth every penny of 
>> it.
>>>> Just an example, in the insert mode, the cursor became a vertical line |
>>>> positioned between 2 characters where the new character(s) would be inserted. 

>>>> Just curious, was such a scheme implemented somewhere else too?
>>>> The screen layout and the color scheme was also exceptional.
>>>> Wish, I could find it!

>>>> Kandur

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