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Re: Memories are made of....


> Date sent:      Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:56:09 -0400 (EDT)
> From:           Penio Penev <penev@venezia>
> To:             MISC
> Copies to:      misc
> Subject:        Re: Memories are made of....

> 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

Probably not.

> 
> I shudder, together with some SUN senior enginners, at the heresy of
> thought :-)

:)

> 
> --
> Penio Penev <Penev@pisa.Rockefeller.edu> 1-212-327-7423
> 
> 
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Wayne Morellini  <wmor1@student.monash.edu.au>

Post Graduate Student Representative.
Rusden Campus, Deakin University, Vic, Australia.

GradDip Media Studies (Current), Bach InfoTech (Distinction)
& AD Business(Computing).
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