ssmith@joplin.mpr.ca (Shaun Smith) (08/11/89)
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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Canada, V5A 4B5, (604) 293-5345 | ...!ubc-vision!joplinmpr.ca!ssmithheins@hpdml93.HP.COM (Doug Heins) (08/14/89)
Hello Shaun, Please forward any information I obtain on the micro-codeable chip - as I am also interested in hardware implementations of OOP paradigms. thanks !!!! Cheers, Doug Heins heins@hpbsl88 heins%hpbsla@hplabs.HP.COM
mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) (08/16/89)
In article <1790001@hpdml93.HP.COM> heins@hpdml93.HP.COM (Doug Heins) writes: > Please forward any information I obtain on the micro-codeable >chip - as I am also interested in hardware implementations of OOP paradigms. >thanks !!!! Check out the November 1988 issue of Byte for an article on the Rekursiv chip set. Sounds too cool to be true. (line fodder) ____________________________________________________________________ Have a day. :^| Murat N. Konar Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN mnkonar@SRC.honeywell.com (internet) {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!mnkonar(UUCP)
ssmith@joplin.mpr.ca (Shaun Smith) (08/18/89)
I've read the article in BYTE on the REKURSIV chip set and I also have the book by David Harland, the exact title of which escapes me. I believe is: _REKURSIV:_object-oriented_architecture_. What I'd really like to hear about are actual experiences! Has anybody ever seen a product based on the REKURSIV chip set? If you have, did it run Smalltalk? And if it did, what was it's performance like? 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