Tom Olsen

“ It is my hope that with the continued growth of the FORTH INTEREST GROUP and the establishment of some syntactical standards, widespread exchange of applications vocabularies will greatly enhance the computing power of all users of FORTH-like languages. ”

“ The system consists of an LSI-11, 28K of memory, 2 Diablo disks, an LA30 DECWRITER, a Diablo HYTYPE-I printer, a VDM-1 display, and dual floppy disk drives. Obtaining an operating system which would effectively utilize all of this hardware initially appeared to be much too expensive for an individual to buy, and far too complex to write from scratch. ”