clt4@andrews.edu (Clarence Thomas IV) (08/03/90)
The July 30, 1990 issue of INFOWORLD contains an interesting paragraph on a 200 MIP, battery powered, emulate-any-processor-you-want (downloadable microcode) computer. It's in the column NOTES FROM THE FIELD (by Robert X. Cringely). Being keenly interested in CPU instruction design/implementation, I would appreciate further information regarding the integrity of the paragraph. You see, if Sir Clive Sinclair is doing what the paragraph says, maybe, just maybe I can convince him to give me a working sample...CRAY emulation, 680X0 emulation, a WINDOWS 3.0 instruction set, a X-Windows instruction set........ I read comp.arch often, but those kind enough to respond...email your responses so I won't miss a thing. Thanks. Clarence Thomas IV clt4@andrews.edu Andrews University Computing Center 616-471-3455
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (08/03/90)
In article <155620021590@andrews.edu> clt4@andrews.edu (Clarence Thomas IV) writes: | The July 30, 1990 issue of INFOWORLD contains an interesting paragraph on | a 200 MIP, battery powered, emulate-any-processor-you-want (downloadable | microcode) computer. It's in the column NOTES FROM THE FIELD (by Robert X. | Cringely). Well, this is a rumor column, and not the NY Times, but it's an interesting idea. We had rumors of a machine with loadable control store before, and they were exagerated. Still, Sir Clive is known for coming up with things which people said couldn't be done, even if he does seem to make very little money doing it. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me