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Forth for the Amiga

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    08-Apr-86 20:26:42
Sb: Forth for the Amiga
Fm: Robert Benedict 75205,112
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CSI is now shipping Multi-Forth for the Amiga. I've been using it for a month ( as a beta tester ) and it is GREAT! There is full access to libraries and the kernal has been recoded to make it is much faster. Below are some sieve benchmarks to argue over. machine Forth time source Amiga CSI 21.5 Amiga MVP 27.5 Amiga Project ( vol 1,#1 ) Mac CSI 34.4 CL ( vol 2, #8 ) Mac Micro M 25.2 CL ( vol 2, #8) MVP forth was reviewed in the first issue of Amiga Project Magasine (by me). The next issue will have a review of Multi-Forth.