Re: Constructed Computer Architectures (Concomps?)

Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> 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.
It's more than just that: in IB, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, von
Neumann and Turing lived good long lives owing to there being no Manhattan
project *there*, and *there*'s Ireland and FK having a slightly more open
attitude to homosexuality at the time (specifically, it wasn't officially
approved of, and was considered something you were discreet about, but the
laws regarding it were never enforced - a kind of benign neglect).

K.

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