Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Paul E Bennett Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Old Forth implementations Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:51:42 +0100 Organization: Hidecs Consultancy Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <15cd8f91-915a-4241-acf3-5bf3d9708b93@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net ZtZrQXdvI9VH2/Ho+P6dyApOBP5Oq+UeD3mSWwCXCAAEW0QvD+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:YrOsBz6JOIgBJzc0wVxrMVju+ZU= User-Agent: KNode/4.11.4 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:33331 Just Ian wrote: > Paul E Bennett said: > >> I think Steve gets a bit fed up with the expectation of "free" support >> from those who obtain or download the freely available versions. People >> should realise that support costs and will always cost. Either you pay >> for the product and get an element of support thrown in with it or you >> get the software free and then pay for the support. > > I think that's entirely reasonable and I wouldn't dream of emailing or > calling MPE saying 'You know that "no support" CD you sold me? Well, I'm > having this problem with...' without waving some money at them too. > > Is either available actually to download anywhere? (Not that I need to, > I'm just curious.) > >> You have to pay for the hardware after all. > > Sometimes! One reason for being interested in software this old is being > given some free old hardware so I can see if I can read some old 5.25" > floppies from a variety of OSes and in a variety of formats. After that, > there are some old DC2120 tapes to look at. > > Ian MPE has a page on their site which lists the legacy families of cross compilers that they will sell with very limited support (depends on the status of some little grey cells for retrieving historical material). -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett IEng MIET..... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy............. Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-510979 Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ********************************************************************