Re: Constructed Computer Architectures (Concomps?)
| From: | Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 9:56 |
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On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 03:44:05PM -0500, Paul Bennett wrote:
> Where does the design of imaginary computer architectures (and programming
> languages) stand in the ranks of con-somethinging?
>
> [...] Anyone else ever dug into that sort of stuff?
My first thought is what they did for computers in Ill Bethisad.
Quoting from http://ib.frath.net/w/Computers:
> Whereas computing technology *here* concentrated on making fast serial computers,
> *there* the aim was to produce small, low-power devices that could easily be
> networked parallelised. The typical microprocessor in IB has more in common
> with microcontrollers, Chuck Moore's MISC stack machines, and the Transputer,
> or IBM's Cell processor.
Intriguing stuff.
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Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/
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