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Re: Constructed Computer Architectures (Concomps?)

From:Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 9:56
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. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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