Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Really? Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 23:42:54 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <87fujpw2kh.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <1239a88b-a574-401b-9454-50ac7e000049@googlegroups.com> <20170206233939.70a7ecff@_> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5c7ed3cdfa3e6f1866ae0e4a7b66c587"; logging-data="26352"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18isLzKMVRv2eD577mFIKE0" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ozjq/HHmtf7+Ng6G03zaBdBrGsU= sha1:MY8rsDMot195D7Ja61KteYOxt7k= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:54709 "HAA" writes: > Tracked down the previous reference I mentioned. 'Interview with > J. D. Hall' Forth Dimensions 14/5 explains his role with Valdocs and > the problems surrounding the project. It mentions the QX had several > 64K banks and was running a CP/M compatible OS. I can't find this anywhere, particularly in Forth Dimensions 14/5 if you meant this: http://www.forth.org/fd/FD-V14N5.pdf Do you have another reference? I did find a review of the QX10 and Valdocs saying it was nice once they got the bugs out: http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/test-driving_the_epson_qx-10.php A few others said it was nice when it worked but was buggy and slow. Forth Dimensions 14/5 p. 13 has an interesting article about a successful telephone answering service application written in Forth, fwiw. It says it has 100 KLOC of source code and was written by 17 programmers for a total of 38 man-years.