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[Stan Barr]

Hi,

Huw Davies said:

> 
> OK, to add a little bit of CC to this. ISTR that Forth was originally  
> developed on PDP-11s but what other classic hardware of the era was it  
> used? Which of these will fit inside the Golf :-)

Actually ISTR that it was originally developed on an IBM 1130, which
is how it became to be called Forth.  The 1130 was described as a "third 
generation computer" and Chuck Moore considered his language a "fourth
generation computer language" and wanted to call it "Fourth".  But the
1130 only permitted five character identifiers, so it became "Forth".

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