Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vandys@vsta.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Date: 3 Oct 2012 18:06:06 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <923e0c628f2cd64d742acdea342c91e8@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> X-Trace: individual.net OmE9EV4M4UFn01Zw//t8QAV+zyW/KnOKHbrJd6Wh1A8ybYo+Ez X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sq2yzA9wza7cPC4o1s+aYtrQOTI= User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (Linux/3.2.0-31-generic-pae (i686)) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:15886 > Forth seems to be a good example of a marketing failure that isn't a > technical failure. It's a simple, flexible tool that just doesn't get any > respect! It's a powerful macro assembler for a stack based machine language. The problem is that it can take your $0.23 problem and do it for $0.17-- a 25% savings! But everybody has pockets stuffed full of $20 bills, so nobody cares. I think Chuck Moore was smart to head towards where the pennies still matter. -- Andy Valencia Home page: http://www.vsta.org/andy/ To contact me: http://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html