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On Friday 12 June 2009 19:53, Ray Smith wrote: > Dave wrote: > > James Wrote: > >> I was thinking more along the lines of machines that ran Forth as their > >> native programming language (the Jupiter Ace?) and so on. > > > > Wasn't there one called ORIC as well which did Forth? > > > > Regards, > > Dave. > > No the oric was a machine that launched with a better keyboard than the > 48k spectrum, it had hard plastic keys, and a better sound chip. > You could type Zap,Ping,Bang for sound effects. > It really was most popular in France. And listening to their music I'd say its still used a lot still! > > Again Forth was available as a tape option. Forth never really took off > I think because of RPN despite a big push when the Jupiter Ace came out. > It was then that most versions for the home scene started appearing. There was a dragon too? The lack of takeup of forth/lisp etc was a sign that something was going wrong. People weren't prepared to learn a bit to gain a lot. Seems to be embedded today! > > I preferred assembler on the speccy and dabbled a bit with it on the BBC > being heavily into the demo scene and hacking prestel. Ah prestel - creator of 'salesman of the year'! > > Ray -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html