rburns@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Randy Burns) (07/24/87)
Is anyone actually making any use of the Novix Forth engine in marketed products? If so what. I saw Chuck Moore's little demo machine at the Hackers conference 2.0 last year and I was quite impressed.
richmond@utah-cs.UUCP (David Richmond) (07/25/87)
In article <14975@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> rburns@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Randy Burns) writes: >Is anyone actually making any use of the Novix Forth engine in >marketed products? If so what. I saw Chuck Moore's little demo >machine at the Hackers conference 2.0 last year and I was quite >impressed. FORTH, Inc. in California ( I believe Hermosa beach) has a co-processor board for the PC's that uses the Novix chip with an implementation of their polyFORTH. It is a new product so I dont know much about it except that the published specs look great. richmond@vlsi.utah.edu Disclaimer -- I am not related to FORTH, Inc. beyond being a satisfied customer.
jeff@felix.UUCP (Jeff Wallace) (07/27/87)
> Is anyone actually making any use of the Novix Forth engine in > marketed products? I saw an article in EDN I believe about 6 months ago which stated that Calay uses the Novix chip as a routing processor for their PCB design workstation. I believe this is a DEC Q-bus system. The article mentioned that they were originally going for a discrete (or bit-slice) design but one of the engineers who was messing around with the Novix chip demonstrated that he could provide the performance and get to market much sooner. Also, Harris has a licensing agreement to add the Novix architecture to its ASIC library. -- Jeff Wallace {decvax,ucbvax}!trwrb!felix!jeff FileNet Corp. Costa Mesa, CA