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Re: [colorforth] Booting from HDD

Dear Vaded,
This is my position: I am new to Forth and colorForth; I have not (yet) written my own Forth: I am not a computer scientist; I am finding that gaining an understanding of any aspect of colorForth is like wading through treacle. I am hoping that before long I will be some way up the learning curve--although it seems to be a case of multiple learning curves rather than just one, and this is down to the problems of using a PC: not one of my questions to this list has actually been about *using* colorForth yet but just about getting it to compile or run or where to find code or documentation. It's my problems that seem to have caused most of the activity on the list recently, so that might be why you see an emphasis on colorForth for the PC recently.
If there were something else available that I could run it on that at the moment would be easier and more reliable than a PC, then I would jump at the opportunity. I appreciate that the PC is not the easiest, simplest or most efficient architecture, but at the moment I think it's all that's available to me--please do advise me if I have this wrong. 

Jason

vaded@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx said the following on 16/03/2008 22:07:

Please do not misunderstand me -- I am very grateful for the work you
all are doing on colorForth for the PC.  I'm just curious how all of
you view the whole colorForth on PC issue, since it is obvious that
Chuck's goal was to say "good riddance" to the PC ASAP. Most of the posts I see on this mailing list are about colorForth for the PC. 
Perhaps it would be a different story if we have access to some of
the new chips/usb drives. I'm just confused why this emphasis on PC colorForth when it was meant for/could do much more on a modern 
Forth processor?

My regards,

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