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

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The FORTH chip I've used is the Rockwell R65F11P running RSC-FORTH ver 1.5
in a little robot dog called " FIFO ". FORTH is great for controlling robots
and telescopes but kinda sucks for number crunching.

Best regards, Steven


> >
> >Subject: Language-specific CPUs was Re: uIEC/SD == AWESOME!
> >   From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
> >   Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:27:08 -0800 (PST)
> >     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> >
> >> (Interesting question, though - I wonder what a CPU might look like
where you
> >> could just throw C source code at it, for instance :)
> >
> >Well, there *was* the AT&T Hobbit:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Hobbit
> >
> >Not quite that, but still optimized for C, allegedly. Never worked with
> >the architecture myself.
> >
>
> 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.
>
>
> Allison