Re: Constructed Computer Architectures (Concomps?)

Paul 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?
A few months ago, I started designing a computer that used balanced
ternary logic (which uses -1 as the third logical value, instead of 2).
I did this as a thought experiment, but I have actually written a
simulator that (mostly) works. I haven't tried making a language for it,
though, and there's a lot that would still need to be done to make it
look "real".


Obviously, I don't expect something like it to ever be *built*, but I
don't expect to hear people speaking Suvile, either. :)

--
Michael Potter

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