Archive-name: ForthFaq/SUN
Last-modified: 26.May.93
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Where can I find a Forth for the SUN?

    From: wmb@ENG.SUN.COM
    Subject: Forth for Sun
    Message-ID: <9104091314.AA16846@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
    Date: 9 Apr 91 01:11:31 GMT

    I know of four Forth's that run on Suns, in increasing order of price:

    a) Open Boot PROM - built-in to the SPARCstation PROMs.  Inaccessible from
      the Unix environment; you have to interrupt the boot process and
      then type "n" to get to Forth.

    b) TILE - shareware, $50 suggested contribution to Mikael Patel.
      Written in C, runs on Suns.  Available from the net, but I'm not
      sure how to get to it from your site.  Maybe somebody else knows.

    c) C Forth 83 - $75 from Bradley Forthware.  Written in C, runs on
      several machines.  Tape or floppy.

    d) Sun Forth - $200 from Bradley Forthware.  Written in metacompiled
      Forth/assembler.  Unix version of the Forth in the SPARCstation PROMs,
      with extensions.  Tape or floppy.

    Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM


    [TILE is also posted to alt.sources and should be available through any
     of the alt.sources archives.  Also, see FAQ Part 11 for more info
     on accessing other libraries, many of which also have TILE available.
     -dwp]
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