Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain
Date	2015-08-01 13:07 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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"Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> writes:
>Citing a few outlying cases of commercial Forth success doesn't change
>the fact that the majority of Forth companies died or that the free
>Forths are what survived and what people use.  It's like citing Apple as
>proof the computer hardware industry from the 1980's is in good health
>today, when numerous other computer companies died or exited that industry.

The computer industry has much more revenue these days than in the
1980s, so overall I would say that it is a success story.  I don't
think that Forth is that successful (not the same multiplication
factor in revenue), but I would not be surprised if revenue today is
more than in the 1980s (but I have no way to tell).  For every new
technology there are lots of companies (startups) few of which exist
under that name a decade later; that's not a sign that the technology
is not a commercial success (nor that it is), just a sign that the
technology is young.

- anton
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Open source CPU+open source toolchain foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-07-29 17:57 -0700
  Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain mentificium@gmail.com - 2015-07-29 18:36 -0700
    Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-07-29 19:15 -0700
  Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 01:40 -0400
    Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-07-30 07:11 -0700
    Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2015-07-30 09:39 -0700
    Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-30 21:22 -0400
      Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-07-30 20:56 -0500
        Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-30 22:05 -0400
          Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-07-31 09:47 -0500
            Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-31 23:57 -0400
              Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-08-01 13:07 +0000
              Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-08-01 10:37 -0500
  Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain mfanyikazi@gmail.com - 2015-08-02 01:46 -0700
    Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-08-02 07:55 -0700
      Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-08-02 12:06 -0400
        Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-08-04 08:10 -0700
          Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-08-04 12:05 -0400
            Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-08-04 14:21 -0700
              Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-08-04 18:24 -0400
      Re: Open source CPU+open source toolchain Jan Coombs <Jan-54 <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com>> - 2015-08-06 09:12 +0100

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