Re: Constructed Computer Architectures (Concomps?)

 Whether you use prefab IC chips or a breadboard and wires, these
hobbyists making computers are all making von Neumann machines based
on binary logic. What we're talking about is either designing
computers that work on different principles, or just designing new
programming languages that work on the same kinds of computers we have
now.  Actually building the former would require much more effort than
a breadboard CPU; much easier to simulate it on one of these binary
von Neumann machines we're all typing on. :)

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:57 AM, John Osborne <osborne6@...> wrote:
> You may want to look into some work that hobbyists have already done
> with that.  A few years ago someone built their own computer, using
> discreet logic chips:
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> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5804062141.html
> http://www.homebrewcpu.com/
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> That would give you the rough idea of what's involved.
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> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...> wrote:
>> Where does the design of imaginary computer architectures (and programming
>> languages) stand in the ranks of con-somethinging?
>>
>> It's probably a highly esoteric question, but that's what I'm doing right
>> now, instead of conlanging: noodling around with a few programming language
>> designs that each started off as attempts to create notation systems for
>> specific problems, and dummying up a few completely impractical computers to
>> do thought experiments on. At the hazy borderlines of the two live my
>> thoughs of assembler opcodes and register sets (etc) for best implementing a
>> given language on one of those computers.
>>
>> Anyone else ever dug into that sort of stuff?
>>
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>> Paul
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