> "Elizabeth D Rather" forth.com> wrote in message
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>> Robert Miller wrote:

>>> While most of the questions to the Yahoo group could reasonably be
>>> answered by RTFM, it is apparent that a lot of the posters have English
>>> as a second language. Given the nature of the manuals, for them the
>>> manuals are not an easy read and RTFM isn't an appropriate answer. The
>>> remaining questions seem to relate either to difficulties in getting
>>> their chosen C compiler to work for them or being unable to debug their
>>> latest chunk of C code. It should be possible to attract the later group
>>> to Forth if only for the interactive aspect. But the whole mindset seems
>>> to be 'there is only C and assembler'. How does one get their attention
>>> for long enough to consider Forth?

>> FORTH, Inc. has an excellent SwiftX for the MSP430, and it's been one of
>> our better sellers. Inasmuch as many MSP430 users are looking for
>> low-power solutions, SwiftX has a power-saving feature that automatically
>> goes to low-power mode when the chip is idle, waking up on an interrupt.
>> This requires minimal attention from the application programmer (one
>> instruction added to the interrupt routine), and results in duty cycles of
>> only a few microseconds.

>
> I am a satisfied user of SwiftX. In the MSP430 User's Group on Yahoo, I see
> a lot of frustrated users of C. This should translate to a marketing
> opportunity, for Forth Inc. and MPE.

>> For a number of years, we had a special section in TI's introductory CD
>> about SwiftX, with a link to download a free evaluation version. I don't
>> know if it's still on that CD or not.
>>

>
> After an absence of over 25 years, I rediscovered Forth Inc. through a link
> on the TI website.