Re: [FWP] Re: PerlOS (offtopic --- "perl chip")

[Sam Phillips <sam@usaworks.com>]

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Bennett Todd wrote:

> I seem to recall a couple of examples of this sort of thing; I'm pretty sure
> that the inventor or maybe it was leading proponent of Forth (Moore?) was
> behind a design and fab effort that led to a Forth chip, and I think Bell Labs
> demonstrated a C chip or some such? And then there was an Intel thingummie
> that was touted as an Ada chip. And some early mainframe, pre-mating-dinosaurs
> (Burroughs?) was an Algol machine.
> 
> I'm pretty sure most computer architects would agree that you're better off
> spending your transistors on making a critical handful of instructions run
> unbelievably fast, and providing acres of breathtakingly quick on-chip cache;
> as soon as you try and lay an HLL down into silicon you end up with poor
> utilization --- little of the hardware is making stuff happen at any given
> moment.
>

They've been making BASIC chips for embedded development for a while now,
I can't remember the manufacturer off the top of my head.  

I've always thought a perl chip would be Really Cool(TM).
 
> -Bennett
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