Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!mmm From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Bandwidth Wasters Hall of Fame (really stack machines) Message-ID: <22461@cup.portal.com> Date: 23 Sep 89 20:58:23 GMT References: <13744@well.UUCP> <4186@bd.sei.cmu.edu> <10732@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 19 axaris@cs.buffalo.edu (Vassilios Axaris) says: > utterly interesting. Well, I happened to delve into the area of stack machines. > I have not seen too much going on, except the RTX 2000. Why is there this lack For more information on Forth CPU's, see the August issue of Microprocessor Report. This is a newsletter for which a sample issue may be requested from mslater@cup.portal.com (that's how I got my copy). The August issue has an article which covers the RTX2000, RTX2001, and SC32 (from Silicon Composers, Palo Alto CA). I'm pretty impressed with this newsletter. The content is extremely compact, i.e. lots of information with essentially no hype. WRT to the posting on "Bandwidth Wasters", I assume the original author had his tongue firmly implanted in his cheek. The only danger I see from his posting is that it might encourage competition for the top slots. (As I write this, I have to sit on my hands to keep from blurting out some gnawing questions about old DEC machines :-)