From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 17:53:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D70A14C26 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:53:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) Ident [ewayte] by pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id B14D03422; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:49:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:49:49 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Wayte To: "Thomas W. Lovell" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Forths for freeBSD? Adv/disadv of NetBSD and OpenBSD? In-Reply-To: <36F6C001.97DB542A@fostermiller.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Two answers! 1) There is a Forth in the ports collection (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/) - pfe-0.9.9 "Implementation of ANSI Forth." I can't vouch for it, I just know it's there. 2) FreeBSD has better merchandise (http://www.freebsdmall.com)! Eric Wayte Database Administrator University of Central Florida ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Thomas W. Lovell wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:11:13 -0500 > From: "Thomas W. Lovell" > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Forths for freeBSD? Adv/disadv of NetBSD and OpenBSD? > > Hi, > > Two questions about FreeBSD: > > 1) Any good 32-bit Forth implementations available (commercial is > ok) with a rich wordset and good links to the operating system? > (e.g., analogous to 16-bit HS/Forth, which was custom-written > for MS-DOS on the IBM PC, fast, with good links to the > operating system and with a rich wordset for strings, graphics > and memory management on the Intel processors.) > > 2) Any opinion about using NetBSD or OpenBSD on an IBM compatible? > Would I lose performance from these (I assume) more generic > systems? Do either of these other OS's offer advantages (aside > from cross-platform compatibility) that FreeBSD does not? > > Thanks for any help. > > Tom Lovell > tlovell@foster-miller.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message