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To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (5415)	8/25/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: Jack Park	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18928

I've taken a strong personal interest (read: maybe buy some stock:-) in PTSC. The chip is just what the world needs. Problem with all Forth chips is that Forth, itself, is about as unpopular as anything can be. Maybe you remember that there was a nifty multiprocessing chip designed by the British a while back. It got used in an enormous multiprocessor box by, if memory serves, Floating Point Systems. Nobody bought it simply because they didn't have a Fortran compiler. Oh well. All the legacy stuff out there is done in Fortran or Cobol (can you spell Y2K?) I notice that PTSC has a c compiler. From there, I'd guess they could bootstrap a Fortran compiler which would make the chip available to all the massive scientific and engineering work out there. That, of course, is Wintel's turf. I don't hold much hope for that. But, my interest goes in the direction of distributed intelligence. For that, a couple of million patriot boxes hanging on a network running the Java Jini network system would begin to have the look and feel of one helluva smart system. It gets better when they go 64-bits so it can swallow doubles in one clock cycle. Gads could we crunch some numbers with that :-) Jack

To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (5415)	8/25/1998 9:02:00 PM
From: THE FOX	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Tom, This is an A.I.M./ Newport question. Recently I entered a buy in Newport and the next time I updated my current price the next buy range was higher then my previous. Why might this happen? By the way the stock that I have had 3 buys on had a beta of .45 or so. With only 1 stock it seemed I would never get any action but 3 buy orders since December , 1997 isn't that bad. Plus I missed one other buy I won't explain why. Bob P. S. If any of you aimers see any Green Mountain Coffee Roasters be sure to fill your trucks. I could really use some selling now.