Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jim Janney Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java processors Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:14:08 -0600 Organization: some gave them plum cake Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <5f101d00-4bc9-4750-939c-cd53605bfa0e@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="PnllQd880uOddfy6hsxHuQ"; logging-data="22596"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+8CliVDbCQ8dCxsmy7ZyAb" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6jBTfQc/KbBN6/coETrWaI/QyHg= sha1:guBUBuBbytd4mgDZ2/kkoZvWVpY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15835 Jan Burse writes: > Jim Janney schrieb: >> Back in the day Niklaus Wirth had a system that was optimised for >> running Modula-2, with its own processor and operating system written in >> Modula-2. I don't remember now what it was called. > > Do you mean? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_%28computer%29 That's the one, thank you. The idea of writing an OS entirely in a higher-level language was still pretty novel. I think the Unix kernel was running about 20% assembly at the time. -- Jim Janney