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I'm sure Mr. Moore feels vindicated that the fruits of his design work have powered humanity's first comet landing ever.

Still, it's telling of the industry's regard for Forth that the manufacturer itself manages to misspell the language as "Fourth" in the chip's official product page.



To be fair, Moore originally wanted the language to be called "Fourth":

> The file holding the interpreter was labeled FORTH, for 4th (next) generation software - but the operating system restricted file names to 5 characters.

http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL.html

It was the OS for the IBM 1130: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130

Because it was the cheapest computer IBM had at the time, it got used by a lot of young pioneers in their salad days.


Well, it was the original name Forth was going to have. Just that the OS it was built on allowed only five character file names...




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