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Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU?

From Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU?
Date 2015-09-23 03:22 -0700
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On 2015-09-22 06:18:03 +0000, hughaguilar96@gmail.com said:

> On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 2:53:01 PM UTC-7, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>> I have an HP 200LX palmtop PC that really needs a good Forth onboard.
>> I have been looking at the forth.org site's list of Forths and quite a
>> few MS-DOS implementations.  Does anybody have experience with Forth on
>> MS-DOS?  What's the best one to use and why?
>> 
>> Many thanks.
> 
> Does MS-DOS run on the 80186?

The HP 200LX comes with MS-DOS 5.0 in ROM.  It works great, full EGA 
graphics support too albeit in greyscale.

It is compatible with many different DOS applications.  I have a C 
compiler that works well on it.

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Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-21 14:53 -0700
  Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-09-21 17:17 -0700
    Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-09-21 20:08 -1000
  Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-21 17:24 -0700
  Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-21 23:18 -0700
    Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-22 09:28 -0700
    Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 12:58 -0400
    Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-23 03:22 -0700
  Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 10:35 -0700
  Re: Good MS-DOS Forth for 80186 CPU? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-23 18:54 +1000

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