Speculation on ARM licensed by DRAM companies

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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Robert J. Brown wrote:

>  Jack> 	Out in the wide world, Forth has vanished with hardly
>  Jack> a ripple. It comforts me that some of the 30-somethings with
>  Jack> whom I work have *heard* of Forth; rare are the
>  Jack> 20-somethings who have.
> 
> Tell them to hit "STOP-A" on their Sun workstations and have at it! :->

Forth is out there, look at UPS' stylus+scanner gadget. It is just 
invisible to the mainstream. Even in the embedded market most companies 
haven't heard of Forth (I have shoehorned a C application into a 68HC11 
derivate, a problem which had never arisen in Forth).

'gene 
 
> (With thanks to Mitch Brady for making Forth the most wideley deployed
> language shipped in the ROM of a desktop machine.)

Whatever happened to PCI OpenBoot?

> 

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