Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!caesar!blake!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!eric!joplin!ssmith 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 Message-ID: <1751@eric.mpr.ca> Date: 11 Aug 89 16:13:51 GMT Sender: news@eric.mpr.ca Reply-To: ssmith@joplin.UUCP (Shaun Smith) Organization: Microtel Pacific Research Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada Lines: 26 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 Shaun M. Smith | ssmith@joplin.mpr.ca Microtel Pacific Research | joplin.mpr.ca!ssmith@uunet.uu.net 8999 Nelson Way, Burnaby, BC | ssmith%joplin.mpr.ca@relay.ubc.ca Canada, V5A 4B5, (604) 293-5345 | ...!ubc-vision!joplinmpr.ca!ssmith