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New Ahhh.. is *THAT* what QX-10 was about !?
I vaguely recall a stirring.. about that time, of the QX-10 perhaps being an actually New and Pregnant approach and far beyond
pip b:=a:*.* /V yada and yassa boss.
Alas I never encountered a useable discussion of Forth, QX-10 and the implications (even when I asked). This even though (even I) had imagined Forth to be something actually er seminal. But what did I know..

Perhaps if I hadn't come so recently from PDP-8 octal and the absurdity of needing to use a CDC 6600 (!) to compile via punch cards, a few thousand or even hundred bytes on huge reels of tape -- I might have bitten, or at least become infected..


{whew}


Thanks. Nothing to see here.

Ashton
When the rich assemble to concern themselves with the business of the poor, it is called Charity. When the poor assemble to concern themselves with the business of the rich, it is called Anarchy.

-Paul Richards
New FORTH took the rap.
The failure of VALDOCS was blamed (fairly or unfairly, I really wasn't interested enough to know for sure) on the use of FORTH as the programming language. The Rising Star Industries guys were high profile in the programming community, and always dressed in black, as was considered appropriate for star FORTH programmers at the time.

FORTH as a general language never recovered from the experience.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
     The Perfect Operating System - (deSitter) - (18)
         Forth based operating system, huh? - (Andrew Grygus) - (9)
             Well, sounds like a good match - (tonytib) - (6)
                 Re: Well, sounds like a good match - (deSitter) - (5)
                     I remember reading lots about FORTH. - (static) - (2)
                         Re: I remember reading lots about FORTH. - (deSitter) - (1)
                             FORTH & embedded systems - (Andrew Grygus)
                     Thanks, it looks interesting - (tonytib) - (1)
                         Re: Thanks, it looks interesting - (deSitter)
             Ahhh.. is *THAT* what QX-10 was about !? - (Ashton) - (1)
                 FORTH took the rap. - (Andrew Grygus)
         Oh, GRREEEAATT! - (jb4) - (7)
             Re: Oh, GRREEEAATT! - (deSitter) - (6)
                 Re: Oh, GRREEEAATT! - (hnick)
                 Well, I didn't really wnt to go there, but ... - (jb4) - (4)
                     Re: "use the ASCII character set" - (a6l6e6x) - (3)
                         Yes...well, um...er,...*coff*... - (jb4) - (2)
                             Sigh - when things were interesting... - (deSitter) - (1)
                                 Yes, I remember this cover! - (jb4)

I think coming back from the summit was the rather more important achievement.
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