The Kestrel Project

Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Date	2012-11-18 21:11 -0800
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Subject	The Kestrel Project
From	visualforth@rocketmail.com

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Yesterday I visited the annual Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group Forth Day - on Google Hangout, of course.

I listened to an interesting presentation: "Kestrel-2 - Lessons Learned"
Does anybody know something about this project?

Listening to this presentation brought a new insight to me. 
Up to now I thought it doesn't make sense to design my own computer to be run on Forth, because production would be too expensive, and using a PC as a base would be too complicated to work with.

But now, with Windows 8 at the horizon showing the end of the development word as we know it, a total new opportunity is there since a while: The DIY community again, stronger than ever!

A computer kit can be designed to be affordable and easy to program, a Dream Machine!

History moves in spirals - now we are at the same point as we have been forty years ago, but now with better hardware and with all our experience. 
That's a great idea to look at the Renaissance of DIY that way - there is no huge manufacturing plant needed. Everybody can build his own computer at his home desk!

I guess everything will be easier with own hardware than with using a PC !

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The Kestrel Project visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2012-11-18 21:11 -0800
  Re: The Kestrel Project Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-18 21:25 -0800
  Re: The Kestrel Project daveyrotten <danw8804@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 07:29 -0800
    Re: The Kestrel Project visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2012-11-19 11:56 -0800
    Re: The Kestrel Project Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-11-20 01:15 +0100
      Re: The Kestrel Project Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-19 16:26 -0800
        Re: The Kestrel Project Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-11-21 00:52 +0100
          Re: The Kestrel Project Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-26 18:43 -0800
            Re: The Kestrel Project Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-11-28 00:13 +0100
        Re: The Kestrel Project rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 19:55 -0500
          Re: The Kestrel Project Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-21 12:54 -0800
            Re: The Kestrel Project rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 18:11 -0500
              Re: The Kestrel Project Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-21 22:50 -0800
                Re: The Kestrel Project rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-11-23 16:20 -0500
                Re: The Kestrel Project Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-23 18:51 -0800
                Re: The Kestrel Project rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-11-24 18:29 -0500
                Re: The Kestrel Project arc <arc.deletethis@vorsicht-bissig.de> - 2012-11-24 18:18 +1300

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