28 Sep
2021
28 Sep
'21
1:31 p.m.
On 9/28/21 12:15 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
My next computer will be 44 bits, if I ever get the
routing timing bugs
out the FPGA
prototype card. I can't change the FPGA vender because I can use TTL
macros like 74181, for TTL bread boarding.
With the 74181 I can have any width I want, thus I can play with odd sizes.
More I play with my designs, I come to the conclusion that
32 bits is not ample for a general purpose computer.
64 bits is so, 1960s. How about 128 or 512 bits? Memory and silicon
are a lot cheaper than they were back in the day.
Why not a variable word length architecture? They were all the rage in
the 1950s and 60s.
--Chuck