MicroFORTH would have been the nearest thing to it - but FORTH was sufficiently easy to implement that most vendors decided to make their own rather than pay FO

MicroFORTH would have been the nearest thing to it - but FORTH was sufficiently easy to implement that most vendors decided to make their own rather than pay FORTH Inc. SofTech Pascal could have been there, too, if they hadn't priced it way out of the reach of hobbyists. In many ways, that was Microsoft's real genius - charging just a few dollars per user to the manufacturers. Even the Professional Development System was only low hundreds of dollars rather than thousands. They were the first tech company to use the "make it up on volume" strategy.