[Coco] Another FORTH

[Bill Pierce]

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
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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
>  

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>  
> -----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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