Re: The Hobbit
- To: ganswijk@xxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: The Hobbit
- From: Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:32:39 GMT
- CC: MISC
- In-reply-to: <199603130842.AA03124@xs1.xs4all.nl> (message from Jaap van Ganswijk on Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:42:22 +0100)
> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:42:22 +0100
> From: Jaap van Ganswijk <ganswijk@xs4all.nl>
>
> 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. ;-)
I used to work for Eo, the only people who ever used the Hobbit AFAIK.
AT&T Microelectronics decided to stop producing the chip when it
became clear that nobody other than Eo was going to use it, and the Eo
wasn't selling.
Since then, advances in register based machines and the compilers for
them have made the CRISP architecture obsolete as a platform for
running C: after all, the only real reason for the Hobbit's design was
the (IMHO bogus) semantics of C.
Andrew.
