[rescue] If one person could do it, maybe we could do this

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 01:53 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>>   I've been thinking about this for a while too.  A PDP11 might be
>> doable, but a VAX would be a very large effort.  I'd love to see it
>> done.  I'm learning VHDL now...the more I learn, the more I realize
>> just how big a job doing a VAX implementation would be!
>
> Yeah, I'd imagine that Vax would be just about the hardest there was,
> except perhaps P4.
>
> I wish I had the time to learn Verilog and start work on a parallel 
> lisp
> processor (if they can do 40 forth cores in one chip, why not 10 lisp
> cores?), or really all sorts of other specialty processors.

   Yup.  There are some people talking about projects like this, 
including George Adkins and myself.  Maybe you could get involved.

        -Dave

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