Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "HAA" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Really? Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:32:26 +1100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <1239a88b-a574-401b-9454-50ac7e000049@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sICEG7SHH2BNMc+rRBU6Rw.user.gioia.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:54758 Mark Wills wrote: > There's a nice post on the Forth Programming Facebook page this morning about ValDocs, > including a documentary video that followed the company to their first CES show. Seems > like it was a very capable product. Just built on the wrong hardware. > ... And too late. This was 1984. The IBM PC had already been out a couple years and commercial interest in CP/M was falling. What buyer was going to invest $1000's in technology of the past.