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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Porting the SysIII kernel: boot, config & device drivers
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 17:33:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wbknignx3.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4000BF98-1847-4935-A7B4-D20322C543CF@gmail.com> (Adam Thornton's message of "Sun, 1 Jan 2023 10:21:38 -0700")

Adam Thornton wrote:
> I rather like FORTH.  Its chief virtues are that it is both tiny and
> extensible.  It was developed as a telescope control language, as I
> recall

It had a history before that, but yes that was it's first killer app.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-01 17:33 UTC|newest]

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2023-01-01 17:21                 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-01 17:33                   ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
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2023-01-02  9:37             ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy

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