Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!pyramid!voder!blia!blipyramid!mao From: mao@blipyramid.BLI.COM (Mike Olson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: fast threaded code machines (was Re: The winner!) Message-ID: <38@blipyramid.BLI.COM> Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 14:17:11 EDT Article-I.D.: blipyram.38 Posted: Wed Jul 22 14:17:11 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 06:35:16 EDT References: <17623@amdcad.AMD.COM> <14800@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> Organization: Britton Lee, Inc. Lines: 21 Summary: used in a forth machine... Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:3213 comp.lang.forth:113 comp.lang.misc:565 In article <14800@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw) writes: > What ever happened to Novix and their (RISC?) Forth chip? chuck haley (of forth fame) sold forth machine kits for a while. he may still do it. he designed (or helped design) the chip. he gave a presentation to the computer network of kansas city last year, when i still lived there. the demo was pretty impressive. his demo "machine" was a cpu board connected to a disk drive and a set of single-pole contact switches with springs. there were five switches, all mounted on a ring of wire about the size of your hand. this was his keyboard. i think the demo was to impress upon people that you could get the power of a vax for very little money. one other interesting statistic -- the novix chip ate one cycle doing subroutine calls and returns. the call could be combined with other operations and executed in a single cycle. mike olson britton lee, inc. ...!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!blia!mao