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- From: kevin@pages (Kevin Sven Berg)
- Subject: Re: New RISC chip?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.192329.324@pages.com>
- Sender: kevin@pages.com
- Organization: Banzai Research Institute
- References: <1992Nov13.083519.1426@metrosoft.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:23:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.083519.1426@metrosoft.com> gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van
- Huizen) writes:
- > > The strange thing is that this technology isn't even new. Check out
- > > the WISC (Writeable Instruction Set Computers) that have floated
- > > around the FORTH community for more than a decade. Extremely cool,
- > > and very fast :-) I only hope (like Bruce) this stuff sees
- > > commercial use.
- > >
- >
- > Mainframes and super-minis have had writable control stores for almost 30
- > years...
-
- I stand corrected. However, I don't believe these things have been
- around that long in silicon, which are the WISC chips that I was refering to.
-
- regards,
-
- Kevin
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