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Re: The Hobbit

At 05:45 PM 3/12/96 +1000, waynem1@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au wrote:
>Sure I could go and get an ARM 7200 or future StongArm
>equivalent and archive half the cost, but such products wont provide a
>Spiritual homeland for forth and stack based architechers.

Since you're talking about 'stack based architectures': Does anybody
know what happened to the Hobbit, which is in my opinion the best
chip architecture ever. (From the viewpoint of a compiler writer. ;-)

Sorry, haven't been able to study the F's yet on the possibility
to 'mis-use' them by compiling C or any other 'seriously usable'
language for them...

Groeten,
Jaap

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