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From: ssmith@joplin.mpr.ca (Shaun Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: REKURSIV object-oriented architecture
Summary: Anybody have any experience with it?
Keywords: REKURSIV, hardware, object-oriented, Smalltalk
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Date: 11 Aug 89 16:13:51 GMT
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Does anyone have any experience with Linn Smart Computing's REKURSIV chip 
set or the HADES VME board that makes use of it?

REKURSIV is an object-oriented machine architecture that is micro-codeable 
with the instruction set of your choice.  One  can implement the 
Smalltalk byte-code instruction set as the instruction set of the REKURSIV
thus creating a hardware Smalltalk machine!  I believe that this has already
been done by Linn.

More important than its ability to be micro-coded is the fact that it itself
is object-oriented hardware.

I'd really be interested to know if anyone has tried it out and what they 
thought of it.

Please respond by e-mail and I'll post a summary.  This discussion really
belongs on the yet to be established comp.lang.oop (VOTE YES!), but since
it is not yet established, and there is some connection with Smalltalk, I
thought that this would be the best place for it.

     Shaun

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