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echo: rberrypi
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from: GARETH`S DOWNSTAIRS COMPU
date: 2018-07-10 15:24:00
subject: SIXTYFORTH?

With oodles (Soon to be tera-oodles?) of RAM available
on the RPi3, and in future releases likely to be even more,
is there any point to continuing to cater for bytes, halfwords
and words, when everything, including CHAR, can be a 64 bit
quantity?

An enjoyable hacker's language such as FORTH becomes less complex
by such provision, and a stand-alone SIXTYFORTH a means to
break the stranglehold of the bloated Unices.

Although I condemn FORTH as being unsuitable for professional
designs, especially where its adaptation resulted from those
with limited software awareness, it remains an exciting tool with
which to dabble.

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