Re: what kind of non microconroller app are done in forth?

On Apr 18, 11:10 am, Helmar <hel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 17, 12:31 am, gavino <gavcom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Can the room give some examples of non microcontroller based apps done
> > in forth?
>
> > Stuff like databases?
>
> I do.
>
> > data mining?
>
> Depends on what your understanding of "data mining" is. I do apply
> some questions to the databases. That is mainly linguistic research
> and shows some structure in the given data. Up to now I dont use
> neural networks or similar things for the investigations - so you
> might argue that it is no "data mining".
>
> > things like that
>
> I also work on typesetting (or better text processing) procedures in
> Forth. I already did some stuff successfully - for example special
> purpose PDF generation for inclusion with TeX. Or what I also did was
> some workflow related stuff for bringing TeX-related things to
> publishers. For example if the author does not want to give you .DOC
> files: if you are the publisher, you'd have to handle them if they are
> TeX, AmiPro, WordStar, ClarisWorks etc. That sound trivial but is not
> that trivial if a lot of different special fonts and text encodings
> come into play. And it gets more worse the more authors you have. I
> made some solutions for such things in Forth (and some in Perl).
>
> > is anyone at al trying to create a i686 operating system done in
> > forth? like linux?
>
> Why something like Linux?
>
> -Helmar

or something really advanced and way beyond linux....