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   A meeting of the Central Arkansas Chapter, Forth Interest Group was
 
held Saturday, January 21, 1988 at Jungkind Photo, 12th at Main, Little
  
Rock.
  
  Gary Smith, chapter coordinator, presented the latest X3/J14 BASIS6,
  
and noted the availibility of Martn Tracy's ZEN FORTH tied to current
  
BASIS documents on GEnie. Gary also distributed GEnie library lists,
  
noted Ilg and Brown's article on Forth Networking in Dr. Dobb's, and 

discussed the February 17,18,19 SIGFORTH ACM Convention in Austin, TX.
  
CAFIG members Donnal Walter and Donald Long plan to attend, and Donnal
  
has an article in the works on his neural net he plans to submit to ACM
  
SIGFORTH for possible publication. 
  
  Donnal discussed the neural net he has fashioned in Forth based on 
  
the system discussed in 'Parallel Distributed Processing' by Rumelhart
  
and McClelland, MIT Press. He plans to demo the net at our next meeting.
  
Donnal and Bill 'Chappy' Allsopp exchanged node construction ideas and
  
may get together to fabricate a few sample boards.
  
  Steve Caine discussed his work in Forth on MIDI systems and some of
  
his synthesizer projects. He is currently using Isis Forth on an Apple
  
//+. He is considering migrating to another system, but wants to stay
  
with a subroutine threaded Forth. JForth on an Amiga was suggested by
  
Gary Smith.
  
  Dave Williams, co-SysOp on Twit's End BBS 501-771-0114, spoke to the
  
chapter regarding the board's open policy and  offered a section for
  
Forth use only. WE applauded his good taste and judgement, and made some
  
Forth kernels available from the chapter library to get things started.

Submitted: January 21, 1988
           Gary Smith
           P. O. Drawer 7680
           Little Rock, AR  72217
 

Submitted: January 21, 1988
           Gary Smith
           P. O. Drawer 7680