heppell@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin G. Heppell) (07/26/87)
(Add one more to the list of readers of comp.lang.forth).
In _Electronics_ magazine, dated May 28, 1987, there is an
artical which describes a major project at Harris Corp.
to develop a set of real-time microporcessors and support
chips using RISC and Forth. Harris has licensed the Novix
Forth chip architecture for the project. Eventually, Harris
will sell both standard chips and semi-custom devices.
They call it their Force Toolbox (Force stands for Forth-
optimized RISC computing engine).
The article also mentions that the Novix Forth chip uses less
that 16,000 transistors, which is at least a factor of 10
below comparable standard microprocessors, if I remember
correctly :-).
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