Language-specific CPUs was Re: uIEC/SD == AWESOME!

[Dave McGuire]

On Jan 1, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>> C was written for or about the PDP-11.  Just about all the C  
>> addressing
>> modes and basic OPs are native for pdp11 addressing and many  
>> instructions.
>> Then we have the WD Pascal Microengine that basically was the  
>> implementation
>> of P-code in microcode.
>> There are machines that are coded for forth primitives directly.
>> I believe somewhere there was or is a a Java engine.
>> Memory says there was a Wang machine that directly executed Basic.
>> Generally it was not uncommon but most were lost to time.
>
> I get a little uncomfortable contemplating the possibility of a  
> machine
> designed to execute ASP.NET.


   WHY did you go there??

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL