Hi,

goran at krampe.se wrote:

> It is funny, I have been toying with Forths too 
> in my spare time, 

	Is it spare time or spare spare time ;-)

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> Retro covers many platforms, 

	Intel/AMD based Linux/BSD, MacIntel and Wintel
	are good start.

> and seems popular

	Not as popular as Win32Forth.

	Win32Forth is much more mature, ISO/ANSI compliant
	but it's too much of a kitchen sink, IMHO ;-)

> but perhaps not blazingly fast (yet).

	I don't have any benchmarks but I am not much 
	concerned with speed right now.

	The goal of this experiment is to refactor
	platform dependent codes and these are mainly
	startup/initialization.

	It's not ANSI/ISO compliant but has a clean slate ;-)

	Thanks for sharing.

	Cheers,

	SmallSqueak