Re: if then else - but why is there no =?windows-1255?b?kWVsc2WS?= in colorForth?

Quoting David Goehrig <[email protected]>:

>... " [snip]
>... " 
>... " A 3rd option for anyone who would like the more
>... " native experience, but  
>... " need to run other software all day is run CF2a
>... " in virtualbox
>... " 
>... " http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>... " 
>... " It works pretty well for experimenting with the
>... " system, although I've  
>... " noticed it tends to choke on saving the image
>... " back to disk.   I  
>... " haven't had time to figure out why, but that's
>... " how this cookie crumbles.
>... " 

Nick here:  Thanks for the citation to Virtualbox; it
sounds useful for Linux.  But
I turned to native CF for speed and direct control of
PC hardware.  Simulators give you the experience, as
Mark Slicker pointed out, but not the speed.  The
latest CF2a running in Windows RAM might give more
speed, but one is barred (presumably by the MS OS) from
direct access to hardware (see OkadWork User Guide). 

Hence my longterm interest in booting native CF - until
an equally fast Forth turns up for Linux. The people at
MicroProcessor Engineering have generously posted their
fastest MPE Forth free for Linux, but I havn;t had time
to benchmark it vs native CF.

Caritas,

NickM