Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures)

[Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>]

>
> jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> > ... As Phil Winterbottom said when Ken Thompson was bemoaning
> > the demise of Mips Technologies and the coming age of all the world's a
> > 386 - they won, we lost, get over it.
>
> It's more, "everybody lost; get used to it".
> I hope there are people who think it's worth working
> toward a better future.
>

Next saturday a guy is supposed to demo his card that's some kind of video
switcher that uses his FPGA that is a 3-stack machine at the Maryland
Forth Interest Group meeting. Forth with a stack of index registers more
or less. There's lots of such things going on. My 3-stack-with-size-register
system only exists as software, unfortunately. There's never been a
true-multi-user Forth system in hardware or software. That should change
soon. Expect to see hardware protected memory but no virtual memory. And
perhaps hundreds of task-engines on a chip. New process, new CPU, same
bus.

Rick Hohensee
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