From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091019152602.GA13857@nipl.net> References: <4030fb6ae37f8ca8ae9c43ceefbdf57b@ladd.quanstro.net> <20091016172030.GB3135@nipl.net> <20091019152602.GA13857@nipl.net> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:33:54 -0600 Message-ID: <14ec7b180910190833i119c37b0p69ddb906cfb2341d@mail.gmail.com> From: andrey mirtchovski To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b3c3282-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I would use a pipelining + divide-and-conquer approach, with some RAM on chip. > Units would be smaller than a 6502, more like an adder. you mean like the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2? it's not like it hasn't been done before :)