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Re: Constructed Computer Architectures (Concomps?)

From:John Osborne <osborne6@...>
Date:Monday, February 9, 2009, 14:57
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:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5804062141.html
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

That would give you the rough idea of what's involved.

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? > > > > > Paul > > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >
-- John Osborne osborne6@ieee.org/osborne6@gmail.com/jro@freeshell.org

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