Re: Memories are made of....
- Subject: Re: Memories are made of....
- From: Penio Penev <penev@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:56:09 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: misc
- In-Reply-To: <4B3D761E41@hfs01.cc.monash.edu.au>
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 wmor1@student.monash.edu.au wrote:
> I beleive that subversion (right word?) is the best way to get stack
> machines on the desktop. If we produced expansion cards around stack
> chips, millions could be produced, after this time drivers could be
> produced to route Java code to them to perform. Simple but a start
> (actually we could just produce IO Java cards from the start).
Wow! And then we could even -- excuse the heresy -- put straight FORTH on
the I/O cards! And even entice large hw manufacturers like SUN and
Motorola put FORTH virtual machines in their BIOS-es
I shudder, together with some SUN senior enginners, at the heresy of
thought :-)
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Penio Penev <Penev@pisa.Rockefeller.edu> 1-212-327-7423