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AmigaBASIC

    31-Mar-88 19:15:29
Sb: #116816-AmigaBASIC
Fm: Jon Bryan 70310,777
To: Vic Wagner 76046,3004
Better story behind the choice of the name Forth. It had to be abbreviated from "Fourth" because the IBM (!) computer it was first developed on only accepted five-character file names. And now people are squawking about 14-character names! You'd think the OS designers (besides the Amiga OS, that is) would figure it out eventually. :> If you abbreviated "Fifth" people would just think you were imitating Bill the Cat. FFTH!