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From: vrotney@netcom.com (William Paul Vrotney)
Subject: Re: Theory #51 (superior(?) programming languages)
In-Reply-To: Steve Casselman's message of Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:49:56 GMT
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In article <32EFB4B7.2185@vcc.com> Steve Casselman <sc@vcc.com> writes:
> 
> Most languages would run better if they ran on special
> machine designed for that language. I'm wondering what
> the thoughts are on design a machine that accelerates
> lisp in some way. 
> 

Why just accelerates Lisp, that's what was done on the Symbolics.  Why not a
machine that in fact *is* a Lisp interpreter?  I posted a rough approach to
doing this awhile back on this group.


> With FPGAs you can build anything you want check out
> http://www.vcc.com/hotann.html
> 

I don't know much about the H.O.T. stuff, but one of the problems with
building a HISC (High Level Instruction Set Computer, just made that up) is
to make sure that it is based on chip generation software as opposed to just
reconfigurable hardware since the resulting machine might be too slow to
compete with say an Intel chip.



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William P. Vrotney - vrotney@netcom.com
