strangest systems I've sent email from

[Diane Bruce]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 03:10:38PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 29, 2016, at 3:01 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > I liked Forth when it was still threaded.
> 
> ???
> 
> Base FORTH is not, in and of itself, threaded.  PolyFORTH was if memory serves.  Then again, creating a thread scheduler (cooperative scheduler) for FORTH is just a modest exercise for the programmer.
> 

Certainly FIGFORTH was not a cooperative scheduler out of the box ;)

I wire wrapped a floppy disk controller and interfaced it to my copy
of FIGFORTH back in the day....

> 	paul
> 
> 
> 

-- 
- db at FreeBSD.org db at db.net http://www.db.net/~db