Big iron in FPGA. Was: Re: wonderful assembly language book

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Alexandre Souza wrote:
>> Arguing that you can program an FPGA to look like anything you'd like
>> seems to me to be akin to saying that one can microprogram a 360/30
>> to have any old instruction set imaginable or program an emulator to
>> run on a DG Nova to emulate any instruction set that one cared for.
> 
>    Nice question...any "big iron" implementation in FPGA? S/360? S/370? 
> PDP? VAX? Whatever?

As far as IBM stuff, not that I've heard of, but I don't think S/360 
would be that hard to do.  Even early S/370 wouldn't be that difficult. 
  But later S/370 (and S/360/67 probably) started getting complicated.

Peace...  Sridhar