09:29:58	 From Don Golding : Replying to "The prestige was sca..."

a 12 inch AI wafer!
09:31:40	 From Marc Petremann : Replying to "The prestige was sca..."

"About: "Forth system optimized for IBM-PC, XT & AT machines running DOS" --> I have writed 2 books about this version: TURBO-Forth apprentissage & TURBO-Forth manuel de référence
09:33:55	 From Jax : BRB ... my zoom session is hung
09:33:57	 From Don Golding : https://www.facebook.com/win32forth
09:34:09	 From Jax : back
09:34:14	 From Don Golding : Tom Zimmer on Facebook
10:13:13	 From Rolf Hemmerling : He talks about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Processing_Facility
10:13:55	 From Kevin Appert : Don, ask Tom Zimmer to come talk to us, please.
10:16:39	 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : Reacted to "Don, ask Tom Zimmer ..." with 👍
10:16:51	 From Don Golding : will do
10:18:45	 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : Jax, any chance "Forth: The New Model" can be re-issued as an eBook?
10:20:44	 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : Whatever happened to PL/I??
10:25:44	 From Joseph O'Connor : Copyright is 1992
10:26:36	 From Don Golding : is this it? https://www.amazon.com/Forth-Model-Programmers-Handbook-Book/dp/1558512772
10:27:27	 From Kevin Appert : Bill, are you ready to go?
10:44:22	 From Dave Jaffe : zamzar.com is a free online conversion utility
10:47:08	 From Jax : Apologies, I have to drop ... I'm on the road ... thanks everyone!
10:47:56	 From Don Golding : I was in Wil Baden's FIG Group from the early 1990s.  He called other languages "The Profane Languages"
10:53:41	 From Dave Jaffe : Please take time to recall colleagues who have passed at http://forth.org/memory.html
10:57:17	 From Dave Jaffe : Here are SVIG colleagues who have passed http://forth.org/svfig/memory.html
11:09:33	 From Kevin Appert : If there's anything you'd care to add to any of the obits,  please send to Dave.
11:43:01	 From Bob Armstrong : APL ala K is implemented far more flexibly in Forth in CoSy so add APL as implemented in Forth .
12:03:45	 From Bob Armstrong : At the APL level algorithms are intrinsically parallel .
12:17:09	 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : Question for Forth historians: who came up with the notion that Forth words should have a spoken pronunciation?
12:22:07	 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : Can you post that board link in the chat?