Language-specific CPUs

[Jim Battle]

Jim Battle wrote:
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>> I remember reading a computer architecture book back in the early/mid 
>> 80s, I think it was by Stone.  The subject was "advanced" 
>> architectures.  One section described on attempt to build a 
>> timesharing system for running a BASIC-like subset, and everything was 
>> hardwired -- parsing was via gate-level state machines, not 
>> microcode.  The intended audience was college-level computer classes.  
>> As I recall, they gave up after getting a simplified version going.
> 
> Dang, I have the book.  I bought used recently it because of its i432 
> section, but didn't recognize it was the same book I had read so many 
> years ago.
> 
> Chapter 8 of "Advances in Computer Architecture" describes the SYMBOL 
> computer, designed and built buy Fairchild Camera, and operated at Iowa 
> State.  Only one was built.  The design was started in the mid 60s.  
> Here is an excerpt:

I forgot to mention I had the author wrong.  "Advances in Computer Architecture," by 
Myers.  Mine is the second edition, 1981.